Print View is the mechanism for generating a textual representation of data. Data can be any format, structured and semi-structured as well as binary. The textual representation is generated with predefined template and specified data. The template is an instance of the PrintDocument class which is usually stored as a JSON file. To creating templates is used the special WYSIWYG editor - Print View Designer </print-view/print-view-designer>.
Unlike most of reporting engines Print View is more flexible but at the same time is low-level mechanism. The main concept is the flow content, i.e. generation a textual representation depending on data, while the reporting engines based on fixed templates. In other words, Print View allows to build human-readable representation of the specified data.
Currently Print View provides two formats: HTML and PDF.
print-view-using.rst print-view-designer.rst