Exporting Structure and Data (Backup) - Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.4 for Effective MySQL Management - page 131

PDF
It's possible to create a PDF report of a table by exporting in PDF. This feature always
produces a file. Since phpMyAdmin 3.4.7, we can also export a complete database
or multiple tables in one sweep. We can add a title for this report, and it also gets
automatically paginated. Non-textual ( BLOB ) data as in the book table is discarded
from this export format.
Here, we test it on the author table, asking to use "The authors" as a title. PDF is
interesting because of its inherent vectorial nature—the results can be zoomed. Let us
have a look at the generated report, as seen from the Adobe Reader:
Microsoft Word 2000
This export format directly produces a .doc file suitable for all software that
understands the Word 2000 format. We find options similar to those in the
Microsoft Excel export, and a few more. We can independently export the table's
Structure and Data .