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Environment Variables
See Also: ScreenPrinter
For more information on the PostScript printer driver,
screenprinter.ppd.
■ The limitation of this approach is that these reports might lose their formatting
when viewed from another system if it is not identical to the system where the
report was designed. Furthermore, when this report is printed, the formatting
would not be correct because the fonts and their metrics differ.
■ Printing on UNIX requires some setup and configuration to create the proper
printing environment. For detailed information, refer to Printing on UNIX with
Oracle Reports.
B.1.46 REPORTS_NO_HTML_SPACE_REPLACE
Description
This environment variable specifies whether spaces should not be replaced with
  in HTML or HTMLCSS output.
Oracle Reports will map HTML metadata characters in the data retrieved for a field to
the appropriate encoding. That is, Oracle Reports automatically maps: < to &lt; and
" to &quot;. In most cases, the browser produces the correct results and handles the
spaces correctly. In some cases, the browser’s handling of spaces does not produce the
required output. This happens in such cases as where the user has padded the front of
the data to produce indentation. Since the browser will treat multiple spaces as single
space, the indentation is lost.
Valid Values YES|not set
Default not set
Usage Notes
■ If the value is not set, all spaces are replaced by &nbsp;. This could cause
problems in your output where you want the browsers to handle line breaks
on spaces. It will also increase the size of the generated HTML file.
■ If a field's Contains HTML Tags property is set to YES, then no encoding will take
place since Oracle Reports just passes the field’s value through to the output.
Example
If REPORTS_NO_HTML_SPACE_REPLACE is set to YES, then the output for the
sentence [ Typical data output] will be:
[ Typical data output]
and display as (ignoring preceding spaces):
[Typical data output]
Not setting the environment variable will cause the output to change to:
[&nbsp;&nbsp;Typical&nbsp;data&nbsp;output]
and display as (maintaining preceding spaces):
[ Typical data output]
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