Re: Help. Extra lines at report end.
Posted in 1995
> Using 4.10.UC4 SE. In the reports section with 'option page length 66' > and nothing fancy in the 'on every row', after the last line on the > report is printed, informix then generates more than enough empty > lines which send the report into the middle of the next sheet. > > It looks like it lost count on the '66' lines. > > output > top margin 2 > bottom margin 3 > left margin 0 > right margin 80 > page length 66 I believe that the report writer knows nothing about <form feed>, and so to get correct pagination, it pads pages to what it reckons is the right number of lines. It also does this on the last page, so if your spooling software puts <ff> at the end, you get a blank page too. I now pass Informix o/p through a filter which removes the training blank lines before sending it to the printer. Andy Lennard andy@kontron.demon.co.uk