Folks I have had the same problem, reports behaving fine. Loading them into the designer and everything is bigger. It is not just the font size, images are also bigger as well. I am convinced that reports created on an earlier version of software are not forward compatible wrt to sizing.
Ian At 10:36 09/02/2002 +0000, JAMES BOWYER wrote: >Hi David , the font sizes and types are left as windows standard on my pc >, but as a tester i edited one of my reports on one of the other >developers pc (which is a standard barebone pc , the only change he has on >the pc is he installed rbase v6.5++ and all font sizes and types are std) >When i went into the report and moved the date over to the middle of the >page again , it was doing the same things as it was on my pc (font sizes >increase , etc) > >Cheers > > >>From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Problem encountered with Report Designer >>Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:34:47 -0000 >> >>Dear James >> >>It may be totally unrelated, but have you made any changes to the Windows >>display font size recently (Display Properties: Settings: Advanced: Display >>Font Size)? >> >>In the past, I experienced similar problems with reports when I copied a >>database created on a computer with fonts set to large to one where they >>were set to small. >> >>It was only thanks to Razzak that I solved the problem by setting the font >>size to a consistent large display. >> >>Regards David >> >>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>www.hy-tex.co.uk >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "JAMES BOWYER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 12:53 PM >>Subject: Problem encountered with Report Designer >> >> >> > >> > i dont know if any one has come accross this before but i seem to be >> > encountering problems with the report designer , ive changed settings on >> > page so that the page is A4 size (im based in UK) . Created a letter >> > template on the report designer which is a staright forward letter. The >> > actual body txt of the letter is taken from a table (using variables) >>which >> > stores all the selectable types of letter. The problem occurs when i move >>an >> > object on the report (it doesnt matter whether it is a txt or variable) to >>a >> > different part of the report >> > >> > eg i moved the date to the middle of the page rather than the right side >> > >> > once i go out of the report and save my changes , ill run off a test print >> > out , upon doing this ive noticed that my font size has increased (on all >> > fonts in the letter) , my page break has gone from A4 to 9 inches so >> > anything that was slightly before the a4 cut off line is moved right >>accross >> > to the 9" mark. >> > >> > So anytime i move anything on one of my reports , i also have to go back >>in >> > and change all font sizes and page sizes back to what they were. 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