Thanksto all on the list who assisted me in working through issues on the columnarreport I?ve been creating the last few days!
Thereare now 2 remaining issues with the report, one minor, one a possible dealbreaker.The report is a membership listfor a musician?s union. 1.The reportALWAYS prints an extra blank page at the end, whether I print for the fulldata set of about 1700 rows or just a portion.The report breaks first on a variable set to the first letter of the fullname, then on the name itself in order to keep each listing together withoutwrapping to the next column. The first break has nothing checked off re keep break together, reprint breakheader etc.The second has Keep breaktogether checked off. The page footer has a Before Generate Custom EEP which prints the first letterof the group on that page.The EEP movesthe letter from side to side of the page for odd and even pages: IF vCounter2 = 1 THEN SET VAR vCounter2 = 0 PROPERTY LetterGroupODD VISIBLE"TRUE" PROPERTY LetterGroupEven VISIBLE"FALSE" ELSE SET VAR vCounter2 = 1 PROPERTY LetterGroupODD VISIBLE"FALSE" PROPERTY LetterGroupEven VISIBLE"TRUE" ENDIF RETURN The report has Page Style to print the horizontal and vertical lines the clientwants for borders Ideas? 2.The client wantsthis report in a PDF format so they can distribute the list to members by emailonce a month. However the PDF file created is 39,308,445 bytes in size: zipping it doesnot significantly reduce the size.Thedatabase itself is SMALLER, only 30,284,160 for all 4 files.It would obviously NOT be possible to emailthis file. The workaround I?ve found for now is to print to an RTF file and then use Wordto create a password needed to edit the file, so members can view it withoutworrying about editing it. The RTF file for the same report is 5,941,248 insize, a workable number. Any ideas about why the PDF file is so huge and how to reduce its size? DavidBlocker "David Blocker [email protected] Office: 781-344-1920 Cell: 339-206-0261"
