Hi all,

Suppose I have a fex with a TABHEADING which can be quite long. Printing to HTML it's fine, but when printing to PDF,
I just can't get the TABHEADING formatted (squeezed over more lines).

The whole HEADING / TABHEADING text is generated dynamically and written to a temp-file which is -INCLUDE'd in my end fex.

The only thing I can think of is to put all this text in DEFINE'd fields and break it in peaces of let's say 100 characters.
Hopefully there's a smarter/easier way getting this done .

Thanks for the help.

-Fred-

TABLE FILE CAR
  SUM DEALER_COST
  BY COUNTRY

 HEADING
"  "
"Period <+0>: 01-01-2011 (za) t/m 31-12-2011 (za)"
"  "
ON TABLE SUBHEAD
" "
"Print date<+0>: 01-12-2011<+0> <+0>11:39"
" "
"Parameters 1 <+0>: Qwww / Fadfsd / Asfsfff / Erererrr / Ee / Err / Ere / Ere / Err / Erereeerrr / Erere Fdfg / Fgfgfgso / Sdf / Dfgd / Edf / Eurail / Ssfg / Sg / Sf / Sfsdf / Ggfg / Ffgg / Fgs / Sdfg / Fg / Sdfg / Lokaal / Sdfg / Fgfg / Asdfasdf / Asdf / Asdf / Asdf / Asdf / Dgh / Dfgh / Fgk / Fk / Wer / Fk / Fk Qwer / Qwer / Wer  "
"Parameters 2 <+0>: XX / YY / ZZ / QQ "
"Parameters 3 <+0>: AB / ABC / DEF / GTG / HTE / WR / WRT / BGBGHFMT / FSR / RFD / RT / RE  "

ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT, FONT=VERDANA, UNITS=PTS, $
TYPE=TABHEADING, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=1, STYLE=BOLD, WIDTH=120,$
TYPE=HEADING, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=1, STYLE=BOLD, WIDTH=120,$
TYPE=TABHEADING, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=2, COLOR=RGB(100 100 100) ,$
TYPE=HEADING, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=2, COLOR=RGB(100 100 100) ,$
ENDSTYLE
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <FreSte>,

Have you looked at MARKUP=ON in the stylesheet ?

You will need the define, but after that you can use formatting tags to control the text.

No, I haven't looked at MARKUP=ON, will do that tomorrow.
I was already afraid I had to split the lines in a DEFINE; a stylesheet setting for this would be nice
Thanks for pointing me this way

Cheers,

-Fred-

Solution is less worse than I expected

Btw, not sure what the max length of a variable may be, but for now this is OK.

-Fred-

-SET &P1 = 'Qwww / Fadfsd / Asfsfff / Erererrr / Ee / Err / Ere / Ere / Err / Erereeerrr / Erere Fdfg / Fgfgfgso / Sdf / Dfgd / Edf / Eurail / Ssfg / Sg / Sf / Sfsdf / Ggfg / Ffgg / Fgs / Sdfg / Fg / Sdfg / Lokaal / Sdfg / Fgfg / Asdfasdf / Asdf / Asdf / Asdf / Asdf / Dgh / Dfgh / Fgk / Fk / Wer / Fk / Fk Qwer / Qwer / Wer  ';
-SET &P2 = 'XX / YY / ZZ / QQ ';
-SET &P3 = 'AB / ABC / DEF / GTG / HTE / WR / WRT / BGBGHFMT / FSR / RFD / RT / RE  ';

DEFINE FILE CAR
  P1/A1024 = '&P1 ' ;
  P2/A1024 = '&P2 ' ;
  P3/A1024 = '&P3 ' ;
END

TABLE FILE CAR
  SUM DEALER_COST
  BY COUNTRY

 HEADING
"  "
"Period <+0>: 01-01-2011 (za) t/m 31-12-2011 (za)"
"  "
ON TABLE SUBHEAD
" "
"Print date<+0>: 01-12-2011<+0> <+0>11:39"
" "
"Parameters 1 <+0>: <P1"
"Parameters 2 <+0>: <P2"
"Parameters 3 <+0>: <P3

ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT, FONT=VERDANA, UNITS=PTS, $
TYPE=TABHEADING, OBJECT=FIELD, ITEM=1,  WRAP=450 ,$


TYPE=TABHEADING, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=1, STYLE=BOLD, WIDTH=120,$
TYPE=HEADING, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=1, STYLE=BOLD, WIDTH=120,$
TYPE=TABHEADING, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=2, COLOR=RGB(100 100 100) ,$
TYPE=HEADING, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=2, COLOR=RGB(100 100 100) ,$
ENDSTYLE
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END