Integrating Reporting Services into Custom Applications - Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services - page 497

http://localhost/ReportServer/Pages/ReportViewer.aspx?%2fProfessional+SQL+
Reporting+Services%2fProduct+List+Categories&rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=PDF
Figure 12-5 shows the output.
Figure 12-5
Notice that the browser will now prompt you to save the rendered report. This can be easily incorporated
into your own custom applications or portals. You can simply give your users a link containing the
rs:Format parameter and automatically output the correct format.
Setting Device Information
Now that you have seen the various output formats available in Reporting Services, you need to take a
look at the different device information settings for the various formats. The Format parameter allows
you to specify the type of format you want, but each format has specific settings that can be useful to
you. For example, if you specify the IMAGE format, you get an output in TIFF. What if you wanted a
bitmap or JPEG image? Well, to output in a different image format, all you need to do is to just specify
device information when passing the URL. Take a look at outputting your Customer Product Sales Pivot
report in JPEG format using the following URL (Figure 12-6 shows the output).