Different Pagination of same data on different clients

rbuser

Hello!

We have a problem with a report.
We open the same report from different pcs - clients ( some with WinXP,
other Win2000 or Win98)
and they all show us different previews of the data.
By that I mean, the same record count overall, but different pagination.
One pc shows for example 30 records per page, the other 33 and so on...

We printed the first 5 pages of all different previews on the same printer,
and we got the exact same printed result from all
but this wasn't similar to ANY OF THE PREVIEWS WE HAD ON SCREEN.

We can't figure out what causes this problem. The fact is that we don't have
the problem per operating system. PCs with the same operating system still
show different previews.

Have you any idea why this may be happening?

Thank you in advance.
Friends from Greece

nicocizik

Hi,

ReportBuilder uses the printer device to calculate the position of each
report component. This can cause a decrepency in the screen output from
machine to machine depending on the video driver and the screen resolution.
See the article below for more information.

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Article: Why Preview may not Match Printed Output
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ReportBuilder uses the Printer device context to perform all calculations
required to generate the report pages. This includes measuring text,
wrapping text, and calculating the vertical page space required by a
stretchable component such as a memo.

Using the Printer device context results in a very high degree of accuracy
when printing to the printer. For report Preview, all page elements must be
scaled back to the screen. A typical printer has a resolution of 600 pixels
per inch (or more). A typical screen has 96 pixels per inch. Thus there is
some loss of fidelity in rendering to the screen.

For multi-line text such as memos, ReportBuilder sometimes shrinks the font
size for the preview so that the rendered text can fit within the required
vertical page space. Even when True Type fonts this is sometimes necessary.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com