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Arunkumar
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I am getting an unwanted spaces in the first columns of the report when using OVER in the PDF format. This is not occuring in HTML format. Please share your ideas to remove the space.

In the example shown below i am getting the unwanted space in the first columns as follws:
VALINO BELLA CASSANOVA
000000010 000000020 000000030
MARKETING MARKETING SALES

 
TABLE FILE EMPDATA
SUM LASTNAME AS '' OVER PIN AS '' OVER DEPT AS ''
ACROSS DEPT NOPRINT 
ACROSS DIV NOPRINT
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 3
ON TABLE SET STYLEMODE FIXED 
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT, SQUEEZE=0.7, FONT=ARIAL, SIZE=8, LEFTMARGIN=1, TOPMARGIN=1,
 LEFTGAP=0, RIGHTGAP=0, GAPINTERNAL=OFF, $
TYPE=REPORT, BORDER=ON, $
ENDSTYLE
END


Thank you...

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Francis Mariani
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I don't see spaces in the first column when I run this in WF 7.7.03. Perhaps you can provide a screen shot...



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Alex
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Likewise, no space in 8.0.1


WF 7.7.04, WF 8.0.7, Win7, Win8, Linux, UNIX, Excel, PDF
 
Posts: 175 | Location: Pomona, NY | Registered: August 06, 2003Report This Post
Arunkumar
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Francis and Alex,
Thank you fo your reply.
I see the space in Francis output. If you notice the output closely you can see the space in the first column of the three rows and not in the other columns.
Example: Look at the value MARKETING in the first column and second column. After the value we have a space in first column (MARKETING) and not in the second column (MARKETING) eventhough both has same size. Hope you understand what i am mentioning to.

Thank you.
Arun

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atturhari
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You can WRAP the data.
Identify the column number (N*) correctly.
The stylesheet code may look like

TYPE=ACROSSDATA, COLUMN=N1, WRAP=0.3,$ (just an example)
 
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Twanette
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Arun,

I think I'm seeing what you're saying -
Column 1 is wider than column 2 and column 3, even though the data isn't any wider.


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Twanette
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It would be interesting to see who has a solution for you.
But this article touches on a similar issue:
http://forums.informationbuild...1057331/m/5337019116
As njsden said: Personally, I try not to use OVER or ACROSS (and definitely never together).


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Dan Satchell
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From the manual, regarding controlling column width in PDF output:
quote:
Note: SQUEEZE is not supported for columns created with the OVER phrase.
(Also mentioned in the post link in Twanette's reply.)


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Posts: 1213 | Location: Seattle, Washington - USA | Registered: October 22, 2007Report This Post
Arunkumar
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Thank you All for your Replies...

Twanette,
As you mentioned and njsden said, i tried to create a same kind of report without using OVER and ACROSS together. And that works for me as what i expected. I mean the space is not present in PDF format now as earlier.
I learned form this that not to use OVER and ACROSS together (atleast in PDF) Smiler

Here is the sample code what i changed :

 
SET ACROSSLINE = OFF
DEFINE FILE EMPDATA 
DUMMY/A1 = '';
END
TABLE FILE EMPDATA
SUM DUMMY 
ACROSS DEPT NOPRINT 
ACROSS DIV NOPRINT
ACROSS LASTNAME AS '' 
ACROSS PIN AS '' 
ACROSS HIREDATE AS ''
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 3
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=ACROSSVALUE,
BORDER-TOP=OFF, 
BORDER-BOTTOM=OFF, 
BORDER-RIGHT=LIGHT, 
BORDER-LEFT=LIGHT, 
JUSTIFY=CENTER,
$
ENDSTYLE
END



-Arun
 
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