"wide" report on "small" paper

rbuser

Hi!

Is it possible to create a report which is wider than paper? I mean that
the width of the report is 840 mm (four A4 sheets side by side) but I
only have printer capable to print A4 sheets. So I have to spread one
row to 4 sheets.

I tried to set PaperWidth to 840 but it only prints leftmost part of the
report... what I'm missing? Perhaps some trick with subreports will do?


TIA
ain

digitalmetaphors

Yes, there is a trick. You have to generate the report with subreports to a
cache in a generic device. It will use the default driver to determine the
pagination. Once the pages are in the cahce, then you can reorder the pages
from each subreport. For example, subreport 1 will print the top left
corner page (of the four pages which make up one large page). Then the other
3 subreports will print their corners of the page. The subreports all have
to generate in their entirety, ie. subreport 1 prints to completion, then
subreport 2, ...3...4. Now you can pull these pages out an print them in
the correct order to a real device such as to the screen or printer. Here
is an example:

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


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Hi Jim!

digitalmetaphors

You could also create two reports. One report is for screen previewing and
the other report is for printing on the printer. The screen report would
have the increased page size so that the viewer would be able to show
everythign as if it were one page. You could also perform a two page
preview as shown in the main reports demo project in your installation.
Then the report which is to be printed will have to use the original page
size you have now, so that it can print on the paper.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors Corp.

rbuser

digitalmetaphors

The subreports are printing as designed. The section style subreports print
order is based upon their ZOrdering in the band and not on their relative
position in the band. You can change their ZOrder by using SendToBack and
BringToFront.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors Corp.