Hey, everybody! We have an issue with Infomaker text fields that are set to autosize height. Often, they will be cut off -- the last row of text (no matter how many rows the field ends up needing) will have the bottoms of the letters missing. Sometimes just the very bottom so you can still tell what it says, other times most of the letters are gone so you can't read it.
This happens more often than not. Sometimes it's different when you save as a PDF or print, other times it isn't. Sometimes one person will have the issue, and then another person looking at the same report won't. But it's not like there are people or machines that never have the issue. Right now I've just made a report where I am seeing this issue to the point that the line is unreadable, and Margaret ran the report and had the full line of text -- but normally Margaret has the issue on most reports that have an autosized field.
Anyone have any ideas at all?
Nothing, huh?
Sorry this won't help but I have the exact same issue and am debating whether to switch to SSRS instead to avoid the Infomaker pain.
Andrea
I've just discovered that playing with the Position -> Slide Up and Moveable options does make a difference to text boxes cutting each other off.
Thanks, Christine. What are you setting them as?
Andrea, I'm afraid to say that this is unfortunately an issue I've spent numerous occasions trying to solve, but have never found a foolproof method. The data-window seems unable to auto-size the text boxes correctly, with trailing text.
If you have a "known" set of longer text lengths, you can try to have the text box expand automatically using an expression on the Height property (in lieu of using the AutoSize property), but I've only had mixed results.
-Ryan
Thanks for the input, Ryan. Suspecting more and more this is an insoluble problem.
OK. further info. I found this forum on the site for the company that makes InfoMaker.
http://search.sybase.com/kbx/changerequests?bug_id=151507
The issue is described in that page, and the answer from the company is:
“PER DEVELOPMENT: Works as designed, print preview shows the printer dimensions which don't translate exactly to screen units.”
So basically they’re saying, “woah woah woah, you wanted to look at this thing on a SCREEN? You crazy. This is for printing, not screen-viewing.”
Sybase stopped supporting the version of Infomaker we use on December 26, 2008. It stopped supporting the version after the version we use in July 2010. The world has moved on. So there’s no chance of making them fix it. Basically, it is broken and there’s nothing we can do about it.