Our Export Addon for SAP Design Studio: Feature List Overview
The following table shows the differences between the standard sap designstudio export and our export solution.
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 SAP DesignStudio 1.5  | 
 biExport  | 
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 General  | 
 
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 Export Quality  | 
 Pixels visible in charts  | 
 PDF: vectorised, other formats: up to 5 times screen resolution  | 
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 Support of Custom Components  | 
 P  | 
 P  | 
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 Publish Modes  | 
 Online  | 
 Online, Mail, Web Service, File System  | 
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 Corporate Templates / Design  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Tab Support / Hidden Components  | 
 P  | 
 P  | 
 How to papers available  | 
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 End User Export Dialog / Handling  | 
 P  | 
 All parameters available in properties pane, custom popup via scripting  | 
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 Scripting support  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Ready for custom requirements  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
 Expandable toolbox  | 
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 Multiple applications in one document  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Multiple selections of application in one document  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Flexible compilation of briefing books via “Add to” feature  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 RTL / LTR support  | 
 P  | 
 P  | 
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 Architecture  | 
 Built in via JavaScript framework  | 
 HTTP request to open bi Service on premise / cloud  | 
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 Target: PDF  | 
 
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 WYSIWYG Export  | 
 P  | 
 P  | 
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 Explicit Print Layouts  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Headers and Footers  | 
 P  | 
 P  | 
 fully customizable: include filters, logos, HTML, placeholders  | 
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 Full table content, repetition of headers, split of wide tables  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Change styling of elements  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Documents with title page and table of contents  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
 via Word Template  | 
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 Target: PowerPoint  | 
 
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 WYSIWYG Export  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Multi-Slide Export  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Text as image / text  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Table as image / native table, split on multiple slides  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Target: Word  | 
 
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 Export selected components  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Placeholders for contents  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Text as image / text  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Table as image / native table, header repetition  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Target: Excel  | 
 
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 Export selected components  | 
 P  | 
 P  | 
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 Corporate Templates  | 
 O  | 
 P  | 
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 Formatted Table Export  | 
 P  | 
 P  | 
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For more detailed information check out our "SAP vs openbi Export" blog post.
