After opening and saving a report designed for PDF using Document Composer, the 'Page n of nn' text does not look as pretty as it once did. Is this a sign of getting older? Can I do something about it?

WF 7.7.05


WF 8.0.08

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Is the underlying code the same ?

Of course not! The metadata generated by Document Composer (the stuff I'm not legally allowed to look at) is different. For the 'Page' piece:

WF 7705 is

OBJECT=STRING, NAME='text2', TEXT='<font face="ARIAL" size=8><left>Page <ibi-page-number/> of <ibi-total-pages/><BR></left></font>', POSITION=(0.250 8.125), MARKUP=ON, DIMENSION=(2.000 0.292),  METADATA='', $

WF 8008 is

OBJECT=STRING, NAME='text2', TEXT='<font face="ARIAL" size=8><left>Page <ibi-page-number/> of <ibi-total-pages/><BR></left></font>', POSITION=(0.250 7.950), MARKUP=ON, WRAP=ON, DIMENSION=(2.000 0.292),  METADATA='Z-INDEX: 102; POSITION: absolute; TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 2in; FONT-FAMILY: ARIAL; WORD-WRAP: break-word; HEIGHT: 0.292in; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; TOP: 7.95in; LEFT: 0.25in', $

I'm too afraid to manually make any changes, but I have no clue how to do it using the GUI.

The question is:

Can you point and click your way out of it ?

That definitely is the question! I don't see how I got that

<ibi-NofN/>

there in the first place.

Almost looks like a change in ibi-page-number.

IBI directed me to documentation: Creating Reports With WebFOCUS Language Release 8.0 Version 04 > Creating a Compound Layout Report With Document Composer Syntax > Page Numbering and Dates. Using the text editor, I modified "MARKUP=ON, WRAP=ON" to "MARKUP=ON, WRAP=OFF" and that corrected the problem.

In the v7.7.05 (untouched by v8.0.08) version of the fex, the WRAP attribute is not in the code. When I edited the fex in the (Document) Composer tool, WRAP=ON was added, causing the issue I reported.

I rarely use a GUI tool to create WebFOCUS reports, but I do use (Document) Composer for a Compound PDF report. I wonder how I change WRAP=ON to WRAP=OFF using the (Document) Composer tool...

Can you go into the tree navigation control in the IE landing page and change it in the text editor there? We do this with the html pages built in the html composer.

Tim, they keep insisting that the GUI tools can do everything I'd ever want them to do, so I'd like to know how to do it in the GUI

When I open the manually edited fex in the GUI, the WRAP=OFF is somehow changed to WRAP=ON. So, in a few days, when I've forgotten the workaround and edit/save the fex using the GUI, the workaround will be lost.

Oh, yea i can see that being an issue. They told us only 85% can be done in the GUI haha. I feel like i've seen a manual for it somewhere online.

In all honesty, I've learned to manipulate anything with the word 'composer' in the name by using the text editor. Sad state of affairs but hey it works.

This is a bug because the GUI does not allow the user to change the WRAP setting, and using the editor to change the WRAP setting is pointless, because the next time the GUI is used, the edited WRAP setting will get overridden.

I know what will happen - the case will be closed because I reported it as a Developer Studio issue, when I should be using Application Studio, but from what I have heard and experienced, WebFOCUS Application Studio 8.0.08 is not production ready.