Infopath 2007 Export to PDF ignores page breaks?

[jprny]

Hi,
Just getting to the end of a big enterprise deployment of InfoPath and the
client wants PDF output (not too much to ask). However, the export to PDF
functionality seems to completely ignore page breaks.

Has any one else seen that? Or does it work for anyone else?
Workaround?
I can't print through Word2007 since it isn't installed on these machines
(nor is it likely to be when I have to explain that InfoPath can't do this
:-( ).

TIA for any help.
Thanks.

 

[S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton]

That's probably because the export to PDF functionality prints on a "per
view" basis, that is, if there is a page break on the current view, it will
still print one page for the entire current view.

I do not know of many workarounds. If you want total flexibility for
printing to PDF, including the amount of pages printed in one PDF document,
you will have to use a third-party component to print your forms to PDF. But
this will be alot of work to code, not to mention more work if you want your
forms to appear exactly as they do in InfoPath.

 

[jpr]

I was afraid of that. How hard would it have been to do page breaks? :-(.

It's interesting, the developer docs on the fixed format output
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338206.aspx) talk about all of
the special cases in it for doing page breaks with InfoPath.

Thanks.
-jpr

 

[S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton]

I know... but I suspect it was probably more due to time constraints rather
than it being hard to do. Thanks for the link, BTW.