A report can be displayed in design view or data view. Design view, which has been described above, is where you design the report.
Data view is essentially a preview mode, where the report output is displayed in a window in the screen, one page at a time. Rekall takes note of printer settings to derive the page size, and converts these to screen sizes. Rekall does its best to generate output that is the same physical size as would be physically printed, but this may not be completely accurate, and you should not rely on the size that appears on the screen.
You can toggle back-and-forth between design and data view. In both views, the toolbar shows a printer tool. In data view this will print the report; in design view it will print the report design ( This is currently rather basic, and will be improved in a later release. ) . By the way, you may have noticed that printing is available for forms, in both design and data view; in design view then the form design is printed, while in data view the form and its current content are printed.
Right-clicking on a report under the reports tab of the main database dialog wll bring up a popup menu which has, in addition to the Data View and Design View options, a Print Report option. This can be used to print a report directly rather than via the data view.
In addition, unded KDE from release 2.2 onwards (ie., the releases which have the KDE print dialog rather than the QT print dialog), report printing can be previewed by using the preview option in the print dialog. In this case, Rekall generates print output exactly as is would if the preview option were not selected, and the preview function is then handled by KDE's print system.