Specifications

CHAPTER 6 Enhancing Reports
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Printing with newspaper-style columns
When you define a report, you can specify that it print in multiple columns
across the page, like a newspaper. A typical use of newspaper-style columns is
a phone list, where you want to have more than one column of names on a
printed page.
Use Print Preview to see the printed output
Newspaper-style columns are used only when the report is printed. They do not
appear when a report runs (or in Preview). Therefore, to see them in InfoMaker,
use Print Preview in the Report painter.
❖ To define newspaper-style columns for a report:
1 Build a tabular report with the data you want.
2 Select Properties from the report’s pop-up menu.
3 Select the Print Specifications tab.
4 Specify the number of columns across the page and the width of columns
in the Newspaper Columns Across and Newspaper Columns Width
properties.
5 For each control in the report that you do not want to have appear multiple
times on the page (such as headers), select Properties from the control’s
pop-up menu and select the HideSnaked check box on the General page in
the Properties view.
Example
This example describes how to create a newspaper-style report using the
Employee table in the EAS Demo DB.
Print Preview Shows
Outline
Select to display a blue outline to show the location of the
margins.
Print Shows
Background
Whether the background settings of the DataWindow and
controls are included when the DataWindow is printed.
Preview Shows
Background
Whether the background settings of the DataWindow and
controls display in the print preview.
Newspaper Columns
Across and Width
If you want a multiple-column report where the data fills
one column on a page, then the second, and so on, as in a
newspaper, select the number and width of the columns in
the Newspaper Columns box. See “Printing with
newspaper-style columns” next.
Setting Description