BIRT master page margins problem

Hi. I tried to produce a simple report with static text. It is essential for me to have properly measured widths of margins. I set up margins for master page to this values:
Left: 25mm
Top: 15mm
Right: 20mm
Bottom: 30mm

When I printed out the report margins were:
Left: 32.5mm
Top: 17.5mm
Right: 26mm
Bottom: 50mm (!!!)

If I use inches instead of millimeters result is a bit closer to design but is not good enough.

BIRT v.2.5.1.
Sample is attached.

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mwilliams

Hi riman,

With A4 paper type selected, you have a width of 210mm. If you add up your left and right margins along with the width of your 3 columns from your grid in the mp header, they are wider than your page. This could be causing some issues with the layout. Also, the height of your grid in the mp header is taller than the header. Make this grid fit into the mp header and test it, then let me know if anything changed.

riman

Hi!

Thanks for your reply. I removed the header and footer and left a box showing current margins. Now it has a constant +6 mm to each margin. I could do adjustments to have proper values but still the question is: is it the same for everyone or do I have something misconfigured? Could someone test a sample attached?

riman

I've found the problem. It was a printer configuration and not a BIRT issue.
Thanks.

mwilliams

riman,

Great to hear! I was pretty confused on this because I hadn't heard of BIRT having an issue like this before. Glad it's solved. Let us know whenever you have questions!

Archana Karnik

Hi,
 
I am developing a report in BIRT 4.3.2.
 
In my report i have one table with 3 detail rows. Each detail row has one separate table in it. 
Page break conditions for outer table and inner table is set to auto (for after, before, inside).
 
The problem I am facing is, the page is reducing in size when I view it in web viewer (and then export it to PDF). 

As mentioned above in this thread, i checked the master page width. I am using US letter which has width 215.9 mm. I checked the sum of margin width and table width, its 215.76 which is lesser than the page width still the page is getting reduced. My master page has only a footer with width 184mm. 
 
I tried setting a page width at beforefactory but that did not worked either.
 
I used page interval but then my outer table breaks in between which is not acceptable by client. 
 
Can you please help me ?

Thanks in advance.