After you've chosen sources to be printed you need to choose the format of the reports: LOGDRAFT can print your data in a potentially unlimited number of formats (recall that LOGDRAFT reports are created by placing your data on a predefined report form). The Report Form tab of the print configuration dialog lists the report forms currently installed on your computer and allows you to choose the one that will be used to print your reports.
To choose how your reports will look:
- Choose Print then either Reports, Subsurface Profiles or Subsurface Graphs.
- Click on the Report form tab.
- If you've chosen the Print > Reports menu, you have a choice of printing a) Scaled subsurface reports, b) Summaries or c) Multi-source summaries (the table below lists the differences between each choice): Begin by clicking on one of the three options.
- Next, make your form selection by clicking on one of the forms in the list.
- Initially the dialog lists report forms that were customized to your specification. LOGDRAFT also includes a set of stock sample forms that you can use: to list them, click on the Sample Forms button.
- You can also view the general layout of any of the forms by clicking on the form then on the View it! button.
| Report Type | Explanation |
| Scaled Subsurface | These are reports like boring logs, test pit logs, well installation logs, etc. Scaled subsurface reports list the information encountered below-ground scaled so that 1 vertical inch or centimeter of paper equals X number of feet or meters of boring. |
| Summaries | Summaries present a tabular listing of the data encountered in a single boring, test pit, etc. Summaries aren't scaled by depth, but they are sorted by depth, so that the data taken at ground level are listed first, then, for example, the data taken at 1 meter below ground level, 2 meters below, etc. |
| Multi-source Summaries | These are special variety of summaries that can list the data from multiple sources on a single page; e.g., if, after printing Boring B-1, the program finds there's space to list part of the data from Boring B-2 on the same page it will do so with a Multi-source summary. Regular summaries always start a new page for each source printed. |
Click here for information on changing your report's figure and page numbers.