Error while changing Master Page size.

Hello,

I am using trail version of Actuate BIRT designer, In my report I have columns which have very long text data.
This data I am able to show correctly in report viewer, however when the same report is exported to PDF text for both column headers and rows is truncated. People on forum suggested that change in Master Page size will do the trick. here is link for same:

http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/21992-text-trimmed-in-generated-pdf/page__fromsearch__1

But when I try to change Master Page size in "beforeFactory" event of "Table", It shows error message like "cannot change width as page type is not custom type": code used for changing page size is as follows:

reportContext.getReportRunnable().designHandle.getDesignHandle().findMasterPage("Page1").setProperty("width", this.width );

Attachment has error message dialog for further reference.

Please either suggest how we can prevent truncation of text in PDF or how I can change master page size?

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mwilliams

You need to set your masterpage type to "custom" in the property editor for the masterpage. This setting is on the general tab of the property editor if you select the master page tab below the design window and then go to the property editor.

Hope this helps.

er5044

Thanks,

That really helped.

mwilliams

Not a problem. I have also noticed that when you drag a dataSet over from the data explorer to automatically create a table, the "whitespace" property under the "text" section in the advanced tab of the property editor is set to "no wrapping". If you set it to "normal", the text will wrap when it runs out of space rather than cutting off. Maybe this will help as well.