Preparing the Printout

Use the Printer Layout in the Report Definition File (RDF) to prepare your data for printing. To help you prepare the first printout and create your own report definition files (also called report templates below), Chromeleon provides some default RDF templates. During the Chromeleon installation, the default RDFs are written to the Dionex Templates > Reports directory of your local datasource.

To print data that is not included in the default report definition files, Chromeleon lets you create individual worksheets via the Printer Layout window. These worksheets can be combined and then saved as a report template. The results of sample processing can thus be printed in a number of layouts.

For more information, refer to:

 Opening and Editing the Printer Layout

 Saving or Loading a Report Definition File

 Specifying the Pages to Be Printed

 Specifying the Printout

 Printing the Results of a Single Sample

 Printing the Results of a Sequence or Sample Batch

 Setting Print Area and Print Title(s)

 Automatically Repeating the Output for the Selected Objects

 Saving the Contents of a Printer Layout Page

In addition, you can use the Printer Layout to create charts (see  Creating Charts).

For help with formatting pages or with creating headers and footers, refer to:

 Changing the Page Format

 Notes on the Page Setup