2nd page prints misaligned 1

[BJCooperIT]

We have a report that prints contracts on pre-printed forms. This is the same report referenced in thread442-1099950. Normally a contract is only one page, but once in a while it does span multiple pages. Since they assigned a different printer definition to stop the "blank page" problem, there is now a new issue. The 2nd page is misaligned.

I made the main frame 11 inches high, vertically fixed, but the 2nd page starts printing at 10.5 inches (meaning the 2nd page begins printing at the bottom of the first page). The obvious solution is to use a different printer definition, but that is outside my control. Can you think of another solution?

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[nagornyi]

So what happens if you make the frame to be 11.5 or 10.5 inches?

 

[BJCooperIT]

Thanks for responding. Changing the frame height has no effect.

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[nagornyi]

What if you reduce the page Height in the section properties?

 

[BJCooperIT]

I will give it a try.

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[BJCooperIT]

Followup: This report was skipping a page after each contract on a line printer. My client had assigned it to a printer definition without a formfeed. This meant that the multi-page contracts had pages 2, 3, 4... misaligned because they never skipped to the top of the page. My challenge was to make multi-page contracts work with this printer definition.

Solution:
[ol][li]Added a query to data model to find the number of rows for the contract in order to calculate how many pages it would fill.[/li]
[li]Added a repeating frame in the bottom right hand corner based on the new query[/li]
[li]In the repeating frame I added a text item of "-"[/li]
[li]Added a trigger to the repeating frame to print only if a multi-page contract and the current page is not the last page[/li]
[/ol]
Hope this helps someone else.

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