Margins for mailing labels

rbuser

I'm working on a report that's going to be used as a catalog, so I need the
pages to be printed using two different margin settings. The report is using
three columns, a page header, a page footer and a page style band.
My problem right now is that setting the margins while printing effects all
bands except the detail band. The detail band stays in the same position
regardless of the new margin setting.

Tried to move the contents of the detail section to reflect the margin
settings and it worked on preview, but printing or jumping to first or last
page didn't work by some reason.

Does anybody know what to do?

Thanks,
Lars.

digitalmetaphors

Changing the margins is not supported. What do you want the detail band to
do exactly? You can try setting the DetailBand.PrintPosition property to
have it print where you want it to on the page.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Have you considered putting your mailing label lines inside a region, then
moving the region within the detail band? Additionally, you could control
placement via the ColumnPosition property.

rbuser

I want my report to have different margins depending on page number, odd
pages need to have a larger margin on left side and even pages the larger
margin on right side.

Tried PrintPosition but that's just effecting the top position on the first
detailband, not the left/right margins.

Guess I might have to define double sets of print objects, one for left side
large margin and one for right side large margin and just show one set at
the time depending on odd/even pages.

Thanks anyway,
Lars.

digitalmetaphors

Good ideas. Another approach may be to generate separate subreports, since
subreports can have different printer setups than the main report.
Subreport.ParentPrinterSetup property. This way you can print two
subreports each with different printer setups. One for odd pages and one for
even pages. If that still doesn't work for you data, you can print the
entire subreports, first all the even pages, then all the odd pages. You'll
have to do this to a page cache. Then take the pages from teh cache and
reorder them so that you pull one page from teh first subreport then one
page from the second subreport so that you can merge the two subreports back
together for a real device. Here is a technique which does this in order to
create a booklet.

http://www.digital-metaphors.com/tips/Booklet.zip


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Yes, I'm doing it that way. I realize now that I have to move everything
manually, even the stuff on the page style band.

Thanks,
Lars.

rbuser

I was having subreports as the next thing to try, but now, when I abandon
the thought of using margins to change positions and moved everything
manually, it works.

Thanks,
Lars.