A fairly quick test.. I put 4096 chars in a note field and about 1.05mb in a varchar field. Create a report from the wizard and delete one of the data boxes. Put a text object just below the data box which is widened to the width of the report, set font to something 10 pitch bold. Set the data box to wrap char, Stretch and the Text object to shift with parent. The report wraps the data onto as many pages as it takes to print the data whether it's a note or varchar and moves the text object with it, which BTW on the varchar report was on page 894 ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Version 6.5: wrapping really long fields
> I'm going back to version 6.5 Windows. Funny I never > remember having this problem with any of my > clients up until now. > > They have a NOTE field in a table. Because the data > came over from an old DOS database with fixed spacing > (they typed in spaces to make formatted tables, blank > rows, etc.), the field is printed on reports in Courier with > a width that can't be adjusted. > > They now want to add huge amounts of data into this > NOTE field. When printed on the report, it takes up more > than 1 page and it simply truncates at the end. Any > fields that happened to be below it will also be cut off. > > Would changing the datatype of this field (like to a varchar) > fix the reporting problem? Or will it always truncate at the > end? > > Upgrading to 7.x has about a 5% chance at this huge > company. But just so I know -- how are extra long fields > handled when printed in 7.x, any data type? Does it go > to the next page? > > Karen > >
