Hi David,

The Report Writer uses the detail band height at design time to determine if it can fit on the current page. You can try to work around this problem by redesigning report to decrease the detail band hight. Create report group on RECNO() and move some fields from Detail Band to the new Group Header or/and Group Footer. I'm not sure if this would work for you but it worth a try.


>I have a simple 3 column report that prints product images, with a product code & description below. Only some products have images.
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>In the detail band I have an image box, and it only prints if there is an image, remove if blank.
>Below the image box are a code and description fields.
>The total detail band height is lets say 4 inches in total height.
>The report works fine, and there is a 3 column list of product codes & descriptions, and sometimes an image.
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>Problem: At the bottom of each column of the report, there is always a lot of wasted space.
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>Cause: Somehow the VFP report always seems to look at the entire detail band height (in this case 4 inches) to decide if it will print another record or not. If there is less than 4 inches from the bottom, it leaves that space blank and starts a new column. (even though there may not be images for the next few records, so it could have printed another 6 or 7 lines of text fields before reaching the bottom)
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>Is there a solution to this problem? It does seem to be a common problem, but after searching the UT, I was not able to find any solution.
>Is it possible to hack the .frx file and change some settings there?
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>Any help would be appreciated.
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>Regards