Sunday, February 12, 2012

Best way to format a letter so that text can break across a page

I'm currently using SQL reporting services to produce letters. Most of the
formatting can be achieved however I'm having problems with page breaks.
I've currently set up the report using Text Boxes in the following format:
Name
Address
Salutation
Main Content
From
I need to ensure that the Main Content follows on directly from the
Salutation field. This works fine if the letter is 1 or 3 pages long.
However, in the case where the Main Content requires a few lines on page 2 it
places all the main content onto Page 2.
How can I ensure that the Main Content always follows directly on from the
Salutation? Is it possible to do this using a table instead of text boxes?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!I should have mentioned that the report is being produced in PDF format.
I read in a newsgroup article that PDF won't split a single row between 2
pages unless the row itself is longer than one page. Is this still the case
or is there a workaround? If this it true, then one solution might be to
bring back the main content text in sections although this isn't too
appealing!
"SV" wrote:
> I'm currently using SQL reporting services to produce letters. Most of the
> formatting can be achieved however I'm having problems with page breaks.
> I've currently set up the report using Text Boxes in the following format:
> Name
> Address
> Salutation
> Main Content
> From
> I need to ensure that the Main Content follows on directly from the
> Salutation field. This works fine if the letter is 1 or 3 pages long.
> However, in the case where the Main Content requires a few lines on page 2 it
> places all the main content onto Page 2.
> How can I ensure that the Main Content always follows directly on from the
> Salutation? Is it possible to do this using a table instead of text boxes?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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