Recalculate report to double size

rbuser

Using code, my application dynamically creates a special RB report in
landscape format.

Now some customers need the option that this report be rotated and converted
to double size on demand, that is, a conversion into two separate portrait
pages. Graphics, shapes, etc must be converted to double size and
corresponding new positions. Even font sizes will have to be doubled.
(Luckily, there are no objects in the middle of the original page design,
along the new line of division.)

Has anybody done something like this before? Would love to see some code
snippets..?

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Mvh/regards
Svein Olav Mytting
Bogstadvn 60A, 0366 Oslo

digitalmetaphors

Here is an example that will give you an idea of how to accomplish this. It
starts with a landscape report. When requested to rotate two section
subreports are dynamically created (to allow two separate pages). Then all
the objects are looped through and switched over to either one or the other
subreport based on whether they are to the left or the right of the divisor
line. During the process each component is resized to twice its original
dimensions, it's font is doubled in size, and it is shifted on the page in
proportion of the old dimensions to the new ones.

Hopefully this will give you an idea. You'll need to make the logic for
repositioning element fancier to take into account the fact that you are
doubling the dimensions while the size of the page isn't exactly doubling in
both directions.

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

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Cheers,

Alexander Kramnik
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

You made this just for me? Thanksalot - seems to do the trick!

By the way, I believe there are now a lot of good coding tips accumulated in
the www.digital-metaphors.com/tips catalog. Is there a web page with an
overview of them?

"Alexander Kramnik (Digital Metaphors)" wrote