Wish-list : shrink to page

rbuser

I use the the cross-tab a lot and it is an amazing tool, but as a user of
DevExpress Printing
System as well, I (and my customers ) find their "shrink to page" button
really great for
reports whose widths are too wide by only one or two columns.
Any chance this functionality can be implemented ?

Phillip Herries

digitalmetaphors

You could create a crosstab renderer yourself which can do this. The
renderer is replaceable. The default renderer takes the crosstab matrix that
the crosstab engine creates and tries to determine how best to display it.
You could write your renderer to try and fit more on a page by reducing the
fonts until the crosstab begins fitting. Of course, you'll want to stop when
the font reaches something like 6 point or otherwise it may be unreadable.
You could then let the crosstab generate over multiple pages if it can't
reduce itself to fit on one page.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors