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Hi,

So, my team has developed a 'very wide' report:


https://www.dropbox.com/s/9jocjmx7vg18r ... report.png

As you can see, its quite illegible at the zoom level required to display it all on screen. However, when we attempt to print, we get output that looks like this


https://www.dropbox.com/s/lxfgrce24xhlu ... output.png

When printed, the output looks just like the preview....its completely unreadable.

Note this happens when trying to use the flash engine. With the HTML5 engine, we get better behavior:


https://www.dropbox.com/s/qmzuocjeugywf ... better.png

But, it still truncates the printed page.


Is there a correct way to get large (virtual pages) to span multiple physical pages when printed?


(( I can't figure out why my dropbox images are not loading properly...adding the links as urls as well.))

Hello.

You didn't write how do you want to print such report.
As a way you could set the page size as paper size and set the Segment Per Width property. Then it will be able to print on different pages.

Thank you.

I made the changes your recommended. Changing my Paper Size from "Custom" to "Letter" (which changed my page width to 21.6 from 112). Then I changed the Segments per Width to be 6 (112/21.6, rounded up).

As you can see from the screenshots, it doesn't appear to have made any difference in the output. The preview still shows very wide pages, and printing comes out the same as in the original post.

Okay, thats not ENTIRELY true. It appears to be exactly as I said, within the editor, immediately on making the changes, nothing happens, even with a refresh

But, once I'd saved the report to my database, and then reloaded (we save the report templates to a database, and then build a DLL from the saved template if either the DLL doesn't exist, or the database has a newer timestamp than the DLL file does.) everying was 'fine'. I get output like this from the flash engine, and printing works as expected.




However, when viewed with the HTML5 engine, everyting still works, but it "LOOKS" broken...



So,as far as functionality goes, I'm doing okay now, but I'm pretty sure my users are going to file "bugs" with me about the HTML5 engine being broken. Is that how its intended to be? Are there plans to improve it to reflect the style of the flash version?

Also, I notice in the images another visual issue. In the flash version (both, really,), you see pages 1 though 18 listed in the report render window..but in the lower left hand corner, the page control only list pages 1 through 7. Now, you and I both understand that the two "page" are different concepts entirely, but I know that my users will not understand this. They will want to have some way to differentiate between the paginated pages, and the printed pages....

Hello.

StiWebViewer is not supported segments of page now.
There was an improvement in the StiWebViewerFx.
Please, try our latest release.

Thank you.