dRofus contains a rich set of predefined reports ready to use. This is the most common and simple way to get data from dRofus to a PDF. In some situations however you need greater control over the data or the layout in the reports, or you simply want to create a new type of report that does not exist. For these cases this document aids you in using the Ecrion XF Designer tool to create reports from dRofus. You could use another tool if you prefer, as long as you could use XML1 as a data source, but we have chosen to use XF Designer because it is in our opinion a high quality tool that is powerful and simple to use and has great support of the XML standards that dRofus is using. It also gives you the ability to export the final report layout for importing back into dRofus so everybody, without XF Designer, could generate a report in dRofus using the new layout.
XF Designer is based on the XML standard and it would be a great benefit to have some knowledge of XML technologies such as XPATH.