I've been having trouble with some report formatting issues with a PDF report, and I was hoping that someone may have ideas. Here's a code sample for what I'm trying to do:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DEALER_COST OVER
RETAIL_COST OVER
WEIGHT OVER
WHEELBASE
ACROSS MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END

The report works fine, except for one problem. As it's printing the sums for four fields over each other, the titles (ie, DEALER_COST, RETAIL_COST, etc) are on the left, and the data is organized by columns. This is what I want, with one exception. When sending the output to a PDF, those titles appear only on the first page, which makes subsequent pages very difficult to read.

Does anyone know how to force those titles to appear on every page in PDF format? I've not had any luck. Changing the page size/orientation, font size, or decreasing space between columns won't work, as the report returns way too many columns to force them all to print out on a single page.

Any ideas?

What Version are you on? We have had some interesting problems with PDF format with 5.3.2.
Have a couple of cased open with IBI waiting on answers.

We're currently running version 5.2.7 - I don't think the issue is specifically related to PDF's, but PDF is the only output format that we use that takes long horizontal output and places it on a separate page. HTML and Excel do the same thing, but for those formats it works, as they don't wrap horizontally.

Is this what you're trying to do?


TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
DEALER_COST
RETAIL_COST
WEIGHT
WHEELBASE
COMPUTE COUNTER/I2 = IF COUNTER LT 3 THEN COUNTER + 1 ELSE 1;
BY MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD AS H0 FORMAT ALPHA
END
-RUN

TABLE FILE H0
SUM
COMPUTE TITLE1/A10 = IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN 'TITLE1' ELSE ''; AS ''
DEALER_COST AS '' OVER
COMPUTE TITLE2/A10 = IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN 'TITLE2' ELSE ''; AS ''
RETAIL_COST AS '' OVER
COMPUTE TITLE3/A10 = IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN 'TITLE3' ELSE ''; AS ''
WEIGHT AS '' OVER
COMPUTE TITLE4/A10 = IF COUNTER EQ 1 THEN 'TITLE4' ELSE ''; AS ''
WHEELBASE AS ''
ACROSS MODEL
ACROSS COUNTER NOPRINT
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END
-RUN

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