I have a report running in production under WF 7, which I am testing under WF 8 (specifically, 8.0.07).

I find that the vertical spacing is radically changed.

In page-heading text with a surrounding box, the box now overlaps the top line of text.

The "leading" (spacing) between detail lines of report text is also reduced: A sort-break that formerly occupied most of the available area (between the page heading and page footing) is now crowded into the top half, leaving the bottom half blank.

Anyone else encounter this? Any suggestions?

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This changed in version 7.6.11

Please see this explanation.

Report output takes more pages in 7.7 than 7.1

WAZ --

That's helpful to know. But that article is primarily about vertical expansion. The issue here is horizontal expansion - leading to off-center appearance of centered headings, and/or paneled output.

When I applied a background color to the text fields of an existing report, to reveal what WFRS calculates as the extent of the fields, I found that the widths were surprisingly large. The report used Arial font, and apparently the width on the physical page was designed to accommodate the worst case (all capital W's).

That's understandable, until you apply styling to control field width. But I found setting the width (whether by WIDTH or SQUEEZE or WRAP) had no effect.

Is there a special incantation needed to get wordwrap in PDF output?


The existing report resorted to OVER (and PARAG and GETTOK) to achieve a rough-hewn word-wrap, but true wordwrap would produce better formatting.


I know FOCUS report syntax was designed when fixed-width fonts (on band printers...) were the only game in town. (Like, what does <46> in a heading mean in the context of proportional fonts?) But still...

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