Setting the width of the page 2

[peteriannetta]

Hi, I use CR 8.0 and would like to expand the page width to greater than it seems I'm allowed to. I have flipped the page to landscape and used the widest paper size available via my printer settings, but still, I need more width.

I find it hard to believe that CR assumes that all reports are to be printable, therefore limiting page size to only printable sizes. Surely in this day and age, where e-communications is so prevalent that there is not a way to create a page width with a virtual size, NOT limited to physical paper size. Hoping some can assist me.

Thanks,
Peter

 

[Kenhardwick]

I have had the same problem and came up with this solution...I installed a dot-matrix printer (even thought I do not have the printer) and then setup a custom page using the maximum value and then select my dot-printer using this custom page. Ended up with an extremely "wide" page...about four/five times as wide as a standard page in landscape.

 

[Kenhardwick]

In fact, more specifically, install "Hewlett-Packard HP-GL/2 Plotter" and you will be able to select a page that is 44in wide using lanscape.

 

[Ngolem]

That is interesting....so you created this senario strictly for viewing the report then...you have no intention of printing it. Jim

JimBroadbent@Hotmail.com

 

[peteriannetta]

Hi Ken, great suggestions, thanks. I'll give it a go.

Hi Jim, yes, you've got it. But as I mentioned, why assume that every report is to be printed? I use CR to do analysis and don't necessarily need to print the results, but simply view them. I actually don't believe it's such an unressonably requirement.

Cheers,
Pete

 

[peteriannetta]

Hi Ken, great suggestions, thanks. I'll give it a go.

Hi Jim, yes, you've got it. But as I mentioned, why assume that every report is to be printed? I use CR to do analysis and don't necessarily need to print the results, but simply view them. I actually don't believe it's such an unreasonable requirement.

Cheers,
Pete

 

[Ngolem]

no...that is true...and I like the concept but somewhere I would indicate (in Bold)on the report (and parameter descriptions) that this report is for viewing only and not to be printed out.

It would be interesting to see if the report could export to Excel properly...that would be cool since then you could print sections of the report that way.
Jim

JimBroadbent@Hotmail.com

 

[Kenhardwick]

Jim,
Excel Export...
Yes, in fact, the main reason I had came up with this ideal was because I design a lot of reports that are created specifically to export to excel. So, this works great for that. And, of course, I usually hide all the sections except the header and the detail line, so it is pretty clear that it was not designed to print to a printer.

By the way, Hammerman Associates was kind enough to post this suggestion to their web page...see it at ...and check out the other tips while there.

http://www.hammerapps.com/techtips/techtipsasp/techtipsdynamic.asp?TTID=112

Ken Hardwick

http://www.KenHardwick.com

 

[BigHairyDave]

In fact if you export to Excel it exports the whole field width even if you have set the width to only one character, so what I do is just use the report expert to build the report (looks a mess, does anyone else wish we had what ReportSmith used to have ie an auto width function) and then export to Excel and you get all the fields in the report with the full amount of data.

Dave