report-design differs from preview

[Nifrabar]

Hi!

I am just trying to design a report for bank-transactions.
On that report there is some data that will be read automaticly by banking. That data must be printed very, very precise on the paper. So I tried a bit with courier-new font to have constant-letter width.
Now it appears that in my trial I set the width of the 'textbox' to print more wide than the papersize.
But the preview does show that on the paper.

How is that possible?
I tried a string of 82 characters which should be in courier-10 almost exactly fill teh entire paper.

-Bart

 

[JimWWinter]

In the report menu select Properties->Whole Page.

Regards,
Jim

 

[Nifrabar]

Jim,
Thanks for your reply.
In fact I already did what you suggest but with no better result.
-Bart

 

[JimWWinter]

Bart,

Then, I guess you're stuck with decreasing the size of the textbox. Either that, or experimenting with a different printer.

Regards,
Jim

 

[Mike Lewis]

Bart,

If all else fails, you could dispense with the report designer, and do it the old fashioned way: with @/SAY statements.

Mike


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