Larry I'm intrigued by this one and found your explanation very helpful.
However, it doesn't solve Karen's dilemma. From what you're saying it sounds like she can't get what she wants, that no matter what she does the report footer will end up on the next page. Or am I misreading it? David Blocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 781-784-1919 Fax: 781-784-1860 Cell: 339-206-0261 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Lustig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBG7-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:00 PM Subject: [RBG7-L] - Re: Page and report footers > > My page footer shows static height checked, but it's greyed > > out. In Position, the print position is greyed out. So I'm not > > sure where it's trying to print. When I print, the report footer > > is actually above the page footer! > > The page footer prints immediately above the bottom margin of the report. > Exactly how high up the page it starts depends on the height of the page footer > band. It will start at (PageLength - BottomMargin - PageFooterBandHeight). > > The report footer will print immediately after the last "other" band (detail or > footer if there are any footers). > > Prior versions of R:Base did not work this way -- they would print the page > footer immediately after the data (unless you specified a page footer line > through trial and error) and the report footer would actually appear after the > last page footer. > > To my way of thinking, the new version is an enormous improvement over the old > one -- I don't have to explain to people any more why I cannot locate the > report totals immediately under the columns of numbers they are totalling. > -- > Larry > >
