If it were me I might try "getting old school" on this problem. Use a
non-proportional font, and get out my data-processing ruler that measures in
picas and points and then try to limit how many characters occur across the
page.
I was having the same problem on the reports I learned the printed CSS stuff
for. My ultimate solution was to limit the table widths and use a smaller
font.
Good luck.
-Nate
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 1:36 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Breaking up table for printing (long)
Original Message:
> From: "Nathan C. Smith"
> Check out the style sheet (CSS) extensions for printing. They helped me
> format a document for page breaks and such.
>
> <table style="page-break-inside:avoid;page-break-before" >
>
> The above, as you can guess causes the table not to be broen where
possible
> and causes a page-break before the able is printed.
If I'm reading the spec right, this isn't quite what I am looking for.
What I probably didn't make clear was that in this example:
(Example #2)
PANEL 1 DATE1 DATE2 DATE3
Test1 result1 result2 result3
Test2 result6 result7 result8
Test3 result11 result12 result13
Test4 result16 result17 result18
PANEL 1 DATE4 DATE5
Test1 result4 result5
Test2 result9 result10
Test3 result14 result15
Test4 result19 result20
PANEL 2 DATE1 DATE2 DATE3
Test5 result21 result22 result23
Test6 result26 result27 result28
Test7 result31 result32 result33
Test8 result36 result37 result38
PANEL 2 DATE4 DATE5
Test5 result24 result25
Test6 result29 result30
Test7 result34 result35
Test8 result39 result40
those are all on one page. (If I left it so that all 5 date columns were in
the same "row", it would spill out onto a page to the right -- something we
want to avoid). "Vertical" page breaks are ok (and I already have code to
handle that), but we want the layout on a page to look like the above so
that we don't have "horizontal" page breaks.
Does that make any more sense? (I've struggled with this for a while, so I
know it's hard to explain clearly.)
Scott
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