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dcarrico
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I have a pdf report that I am working on and I am running into a problem with centering the data in the columns when wrap is turned on. Is there a way around this? I am including an example below.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
'CAR.COMP.CAR'
'CAR.CARREC.MODEL'
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='TIMES NEW ROMAN',
SIZE=10,
RIGHTGAP=0.125000,
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N1,
GRID=ON,
JUSTIFY=CENTER,
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N2,
GRID=ON,
JUSTIFY=CENTER,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
COLUMN=N1,
GRID=ON,
JUSTIFY=CENTER,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
COLUMN=N2,
GRID=ON,
JUSTIFY=CENTER,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
COLUMN=N2,
WRAP=0.750000,
$
ENDSTYLE
END

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Release: 7.7.03
OS : Linux
Outputs: EXL2K/PDF/HTML
 
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Francis Mariani
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Wow, that's ugly! I'm afraid I don't think we can do anything about that.


Francis


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dcarrico
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I was afraid of that. I have looked around in both Focal Point and the Tips and Techniques section and did not find anything that helped.


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Hua
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quote:
WRAP=0.750000,

Do you have enough room to expand your column width? WRAP = 1.75


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dcarrico
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Unfortunately I don't. The actual report is 10 columns across, and anything larger pushes the data to a next page.


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Waz
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My only suggestion would be to use Mcgyver + PARAG + GETTOK to generate the rows, the JUSTIFY=CENTER will then work, you wont need the WRAP.


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Francis Mariani
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My suggestion would be to not use JUSTIFY=CENTER with WRAP until some future version of WebFOCUS PDF output is fixed. I would also open a case with Tech Support.


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dcarrico
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Thanks. I have opened a ticket up with Tech Support, and will be giving the suggestion that Waz gave a try today.


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ogletree
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Was this ever fixed? I'm having the same problem in webfocus 7.6 - I am printing a custom title from the user which can get quite long and should be wrapped, but as soon as I turn on wrapping it becomes left-justified and ugly.


Using WebFOCUS 7.6.3 (as of 16-OCT-2009)
 
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Darin Lee
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No. There is no center justification when wrap is used.

However, if it's a parameter, you could use a function like PARAG or EDIT to insert commas at specified locations in the text and then use that string in your AS phrase. Something like this:
-SET &STRING='THIS IS A TITLE NEXT TITLE2 AND ANOTHER TITLE ';
-SET &COLTITLE=PARAG(&STRING.LENGTH, '&STRING.EVAL', ',', 10, 'A&STRING.LENGTH')
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR AS '&COLTITLE.EVAL'
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN,
     SQUEEZE=ON,
     ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
     GRID=OFF,
     FONT='ARIAL',
     SIZE=10,
     COLOR='BLACK',
     BACKCOLOR='NONE',
     STYLE=NORMAL,
$
TYPE=TITLE, COLUMN=CAR, JUSTIFY=CENTER,$
ENDSTYLE
END


This will work as-is for a column title. row values would not work with this.

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Regards,

Darin


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ogletree
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Thanks Darin. I think I can adapt that technique for my needs. I opened a case with IBI and they confirmed that wrap+centering does not work. They claimed that squeeze would let me wrap and center, but then determined that that didn't work, either, so hopefully they'll fix this...


Using WebFOCUS 7.6.3 (as of 16-OCT-2009)
 
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Doug
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Nice work Darin... I like the implantation of those commas... This just might come in handy someday... referring back to this means that I won't need to re-invent the wheel... Nor will anyone else if they check out FocalPoint...
 
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