Customers often ask how to include their pdf forms in ReportBuilder so they can do forms emulation like the tax form shown in one of the Developer’s Guide tutorials. The solution is convert the PDF to a metafile (WMF/EMF). A high quality metafile will contain a list of Windows GDI commands required to render the form to Full Article…
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How To…Start a Left to Right Column on a New Row
Question “How can I force each group to start at the beginning of a new row when using left-to-right columns?” Solution Inside the GroupFooter.AfterGenerate event, set the TppEngine.CurrentColumn property to -1. This will force the next column printed to be the 0 (first) position. Download: StartLeftToRightColumnOnNewRow.zip Sample Delphi code: procedure TForm1.ppGroupFooterBand1AfterGenerate(Sender: TObject); begin ppReport.Engine.CurrentColumn := Full Article…
How To…Prevent an Orphaned Summary Band
Question “The summary band of my report displays alone on the last page of my report. Is there a way to move the last detail band to the next page to prevent this behavior?” Solution This can be done by measuring the amount of space the last detail plus the summary band take on the Full Article…