TppRichText problems

rbuser

Hi,

Premises :
- I use Delphi 6.02 and RB 6.x.
- I have several about 2.5 pages long rtf-letters, which I want to
send to various people according their native language
- I load those letters to TppRichText in BeforePrint
- New page is controlled by the sub-report placed before TppRichtext,
because I couldn't find any other way to do it
- TppRichText strech is true

Problems :
- Every bloody letter seems to start where ever it wants to - +/- 4 rows
from desired position
- Blank pages occasionally in the middle of the letter and sometimes
between them

So, what's wrong here or is it only me...

Regards
Kari Raty

digitalmetaphors

First, upgrade to RB 7.01. You will find the rich text printing is better
than in RB 6. There were a few fixes to correct rich text rendering for this
release.

Then you should let the rich text control break across pages in a simple
report to see that it is printing entirely and correctly with no other
controls in the report. There should only be one rich text control to print
the entire letter. Don't use a subreport to cause a page break. If you want
to force a page break, use other techniques. One such technique is to limit
the available space on the page the report richtext control has to print.
The first method is to set the BottomOffset of the richtext control or the
detail band it is located in. Another way is to resize the page footer to be
taller, occupying more whitespace. If you still can't get the letter to
print how you want it, then send a simple example with the a description or
image of how you want the report to look like to
support@digital-metaphors.com and I'll see if there is something we can do
to get it to print how you want it to.

Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors