Do the column headers change dynamically? If so, it seems that a good wordwrap function that will make the appearance of the wrapped text acceptable would be the most helpful because I do not see any better means of designing the report within your constraints (9 points, portrait). Maybe someone else will have a better idea?
>Correct. The columns have required minimal widths to accomodate the size of the data fields, but they will not wrap; only the headers will.
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>>Do I understand you correctly that only the column headers could wrap and encompass multiple lines but the data in the columns will never exceed the width of their respective column?
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>>>I've got dynamic column headers in a report form that look something like this:
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>>>Lots of Text could be on this line with Column Header 1 could Column Header 2 could Column Header 3 could
>>>multiple lines be long also) be long also) be long also)
>>>That could go pretty long. And this line too And this line too And this line too
>>>That could go pretty long. And this line too And this line too And this line too
>>>---------------------------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------
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>>>Column of text here 000000000000000000000.00 000000000000000000000.00 000000000000000000000.00
>>>Column of text here 000000000000000000000.00 000000000000000000000.00 000000000000000000000.00
>>> . . . .
>>> . . . .
>>> . . . .
>>>Column of text here 000000000000000000000.00 000000000000000000000.00 000000000000000000000.00
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>>>The page has to remain standard portrait and the text size cannot go below 9. I think it looks crappy when the column header start wrapping. Unfortunately the header text could, though rarely would be, 250 characters in length. Can anyone think of a good layout design for this? I haven't come up with anything that doesn't just look like another flavor of crappy.
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