Friday, December 21, 2007 Tip of the Day #2: Changing Report Margins Using PRINT Command
Section: Enhanced PRINT Command Supported Versions: . R:BASE 7.6 (Build 7.6.2.31221 or higher) for Windows . R:BASE (C/S:I) 7.6 (Build 7.6.2.31221 or higher) for Windows . R:BASE Turbo (Build 7.6.2.31221 or higher) for Windows Did you know that you can change the report margins dynamically using the enhanced PRINT ... OPTION margin parameters? Here's how: Four additional PRINT OPTIONs are now supported to change Left, Top, Right and Bottom margins of report. Syntax: PRINT reportname OPTION outputvalue|MARGIN_xxxx nnn Where: outputvalue is the parameter such as SCREEN, PRINTER, BMP, EMF, ETXT, GIF, HTML, JPG, PDF, RTF, TIFF, TXT, WMF, XHTML, or XLS. MARGIN_xxxx are the parameter for: . MARGIN_LEFT . MARGIN_TOP . MARGIN_RIGHT . MARGIN_BOTTOM nnn is the REAL data type value, such as, 0.5, 1.0 or 0.75 MARGIN_LEFT nnn option specifies the horizontal position on the page where printing should begin. All report component positions are relative to the margin. In other words, if the MARGIN_LEFT parameter is set to 0.25 inches and you place a report component in a band and set the component's "left" parameter to 0, then that component will print 0.25 inches from the edge of page (or at the left margin). MARGIN_TOP nnn option specifies the vertical position on the page where printing should begin. All report component positions are relative to the margin. In other words, if the MARGIN_TOP parameter is set to 0.25 inches and you place a report component in a band and set the component's "top" parameter to 0, then that component will print 0.25 inches from the edge of page (or at the top margin). MARGIN_RIGHT nnn option specifies the horizontal position on the page where printing should stop. All report component positions are relative to the margin. MARGIN_BOTTOM nnn option specifies the vertical position on the page where printing should stop. All report component positions are relative to the margin. -- Example 01: PRINT CustomerList OPTION PRINTER|MARGIN_LEFT 1.25 -- Example 02: PRINT CustomerList OPTION PRINTER|MARGIN_TOP 0.50 -- Example 03: PRINT CustomerList OPTION PRINTER|MARGIN_RIGHT 0.75 -- Example 04: PRINT CustomerList OPTION PRINTER|MARGIN_BOTTOM 0.50 -- Example 05: PRINT CustomerList OPTION PRINTER + |MARGIN_LEFT 1.25 + |MARGIN_TOP 0.50 + |MARGIN_RIGHT 0.75 + |MARGIN_BOTTOM 0.50 Very Best R:egards, Razzak.
