User`s guide

Reporter

Tailoring a Report’s Appearance

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Tailoring a Report’s Appearance

Reporter gives you extensive control over the appearance of your reports.

The following pages describe Reporter features that let you tailor the

way your reports look:

● Page layout parameters, which let you set a page header and footer,

control how many graphs to place on each page and in what layout, and

select whether data from multiple data sources should be shown in

each graph or separate graphs.

● Graph settings, which let you set the graph style (pie, bar, line, etc.);

X and Y axis labels and font; graph header text, font, and border style;

graph footer text, font, and border style; and legend placement, font,

and border style.

In addition to the items discussed on the following pages, many aspects

of reports and graphs are controlled by resources in the Netm X resources

ﬁle, located in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. For example, resources

in this ﬁle control the colors, lines, and ﬁll patterns used in Reporter

graphs.

Resources also control the default values for many of the graph settings

discussed below.

For information on Netm resources, refer to the comments in the ﬁle.