Text Fragmentation in Boxes by Powerpoint Emitter 4.3.2.

carooso

<p>We have BIRT reports with large text objects as output. The reports are often exported to Powerpoint presentations. This presentations are very uncomfortable for manual editing because the text is fragmented over a lot of different text boxes. Used BIRT version: 4.3.2. PPT and PPTx Emitter deliver identical results. All other emitters (.doc(x)/.xls(x)/PDF) deliver usable results.</p><p>Long text is splitted over several text boxes for each line and also in several text boxes per line. Each line starting from the second line is splitted into two text boxes. One with the first word and another with the rest. TAB, CR, LF etc. provoke also a splitting in different text boxes. </p><p> </p><p>Here is an example (just one text in a label with default options, result is splitted in 21 text boxes):  </p><p> </p><div>[sharedmedia=core:attachments:10082]</div><p> </p><p>And here the corresponding input in the designer:</p><p> </p><div>[sharedmedia=core:attachments:10083]</div><p> </p><p>Is there any logical reason behind this text box fragmentation?</p><p>Is there any way to put a long text e.g. in a label in a BIRT PPT/PPTX report in one resulting text box?</p><p> </p>

kclark

<p>I haven't tried it, but you could check what the output type is in onRender() and then check your text length.  Then insert n or <br> after n characters.  Like I said, I haven't tried it so I don't know if it will work with powerpoint, but I have done something similar for splitting labels in a chart legend.</p>