Formatting Text in a Report

You can use text formatting options to change the font, font style, alignment, size, and color of the text in your report. On the Format tab, in the General options, you can set these options for the entire report.

To set the same properties but only apply them to a specific area of your report, select a different option from the quick access menu. For example, select Columns to change the font in the body of the report. In the Select Elements and Columns area, you can specify whether your formatting should apply to the column titles, data values, or both, and which column should be affected. This allows you to set styling options that affect specific columns of the report, highlighting or distinguishing certain fields.

The text formatting options are shown in the following image.

A list of default fonts is provided. To add a font to this list, specify the font files for each font style, such as regular, bold, and italic, in the fontuser.xml file, in your server installation. This file is located in the etc subdirectory of the server configuration directory, for example, drive:\ibi\srv82\wfs\etc. For more information, see the WebFOCUS Font Support topic in Creating Reports With WebFOCUS Language. If you are configuring a TrueType font, you do not need to specify the AFM font metrics file.