Hi.
I've been working on a report for a while now and am reaching out to see if anyone else has any ideas on how to fix this.
When I view a report, it shows up exactly how I want it. The 1st table is, of course, at the top of the 1st page and the 2nd table starts on the 1st page right under the 1st table and it carries over onto the 2nd and 3rd pages. (In this example, the long descriptions are VERY long.) See picture "Report on View Only.png".
When I export this to a PDF, it is changed from the view to have the 1st table start on the 1st page, but if the 2nd table would otherwise break over the page, it is started on the 2nd page rather than starting right below the 1st table on the 1st page. See picture "Report Exported to PDF".
However, when I export this to a word document, the spacing is the same as it was on the view. See Report Exported to Word Document.png".
When I do a direct print, it prints as it apprears in the PDF export. That adds additional pages on the report, so I really want to change this so it prints as compact as possible with the direct print icon rather that manually exporting this to word and printing it.
I have gotten into the XML source for the report and ensured that the pages breaks in every instance are set to avoid:
<property name="pageBreakAfter">avoid</property>
<property name="pageBreakBefore">avoid</property>
<property name="pageBreakInside">avoid</property>
I've also been googling this and haven't found anything that works for me. Any idea why this is happening and what I can do to avoid this? (BIRT 3.7.1)
Many thanks in advance.
