Switching to PDF View

It can be helpful to occasionally check your progress during the document creation process. Switch to PDF View to see what the document looks like after the PDF is generated.

To switch to PDF View

Click PDF View on the toolbar.

The PDF is generated:

Notice that the document has only one page, although the report contains two customers and the document is grouped by customer. However, the Customer attribute has not yet been placed on the document, so the document is not really grouping yet. Also, since the only controls on the document are static—a picture and the words "Customer Invoice"—the document in PDF View does not look much different from the document in Design View.

To continue working on the document, click Design View on the toolbar.

If you frequently switch between Design View and PDF View, keep an instance of Acrobat Reader open on your machine. This helps speed up the process of switching to PDF View.