Overflow Lines

[ft310]

I am using a version of Stephen LeBans 'Lady' report logic to print a report
of text items.

The specification requires the first two or three words of the first line
print in bold with the remaining text of the entry printed as non-bold
(Roman).

Fortunately, the length of the text almost always occupies at least two
lines of print, but occasionally the text on the second line wants to
overflow to a third line.

The 'lady' logic accomplishes its function by printing the line components
multiple times using the 'Print' function. It seems once this Print function
is used, the connection to line overflow is lost even if the text box for
the second line has Grow / Shrink set to yes. A version of this report
attempted to use three text boxes, but that left an empty text box most of
the time.

From Access (2003) point of view, a lot of what is going on is reasonable,
but is counterproductive in this case.

In a nut shell, the report wants to have lines of print with the first few
words in bold and the remainder of the line roman. If anyone has any
insights here, I will be very appreciative.

In advance, thank you for your time.

Frank Toohey

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Can you use RTF instead?

 

[ft310]

Yes

The ultimate objective is to get to a pdf file. I know Stephen Lebans has a
PDF module, but I was leary to add to much at once.

With a RTF file, I can still print via Acrobat Distiller.

Are you suggesting the behaviour I'm seeing here changes with RTF?

Or, prehaps I should let you go on without my preamble

Thanks

F.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

My suggestion was that if you use RTF to set the first few words in bold and
the remainder of the line roman, it should work. However, it's definitely a
lot more work!