Centering Reports

In HTML you would put the report inside of a -HTMLFORM.
eg
TABLE FILE>.
... ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT HTMLTABLE AS ABC
..
END
-HTMLFORM BEGIN

!TAB.FIL.ABC

-HTMLFORM END

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Ignored post by GCohen posted

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Yeah that's what I was figuring, what about PDF?

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Ignored post by .eric posted

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I have not seen this easily done in PDF. I believe how it was done was by holding the report as DOC file, then creating a mfd that containned only one field and then displaying that single field in a PDF and centering it across the page. I believe a lot of the formatting was lost because of holding as a DOC file.

I was able to get my users to not want this by showing them a PDF report that was streached across the whole page.

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Ignored post by reFOCUSing posted

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Ah ... well that's really not what I wanted to hear. Thanks anyway reFOCUSing.

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Ignored post by .eric posted

Prarie

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You can try playing with the magins....till you get it where you want.

This is What IBI says on the subject

Unfortunately, this cannot be done in Release 5.3.x of Developer Studio.
In Release 7.1, we have a new tool called the PDF Layout Painter.

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Ignored post by Prarie posted

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That's weird because I have 7.1 and there is no such tool, maybe they're refering to the new 7.3 coming out.

The only problem with setting margins is that depending on the parameters the user selects the margin can be anywhere from an inch to three inches (in order for it to look centered).

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Ignored post by .eric posted

reFOCUSing

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.eric,
Here is what I did to get the users to not want a centered report. Maybe it will work for you.

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
     DEALER_COST
     RETAIL_COST
BY
     COUNTRY
BY
     CAR
BY
     BODYTYPE
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,PAGESIZE='Letter',LEFTMARGIN=0.25,RIGHTMARGIN=0.25,TOPMARGIN=0.25,BOTTOMMARGIN=0.00,SQUEEZE=ON,ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE,$

TYPE=REPORT,FONT='ARIAL',SIZE=8,COLOR='BLACK',BACKCOLOR='NONE',STYLE=NORMAL,RIGHTGAP=0.00,LEFTGAP=0.00,$
TYPE=REPORT,COLUMN=P1, SQUEEZE=2.00,$
TYPE=REPORT,COLUMN=P2, SQUEEZE=2.00,$
TYPE=REPORT,COLUMN=P3, SQUEEZE=2.00,$
TYPE=REPORT,COLUMN=P4, SQUEEZE=3.00,$
TYPE=REPORT,COLUMN=P5, SQUEEZE=1.00,$
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN

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Ignored post by reFOCUSing posted

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So you're basically just setting all your column widths to total the width of the page right?

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