[kexi] [Bug 379308] Page size difference

[Jarosław Staniek]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379308

Jarosław Staniek <staniek at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 CC|                            |staniek at kde.org

--- Comment #2 from Jarosław Staniek <staniek at kde.org> ---
Ian,
Thanks for the report.

> There seems to me no way to make use of this area.

It's possible by setting 1. page size 2. margins. Please see my attachments.

Click on the select entire area box (left top corner of report) then change
page size and/or margins. Unit can be changed too to your preference.

Then resize the details section using dragging the bottom handle. This needs 
improvement in Kexi. You can resize easier if you resize Kexi window more
(beyond of screen size maybe) temporarily. 
Alternatively if you click the report Detail section there is the Height
property. Change it e.g. to 27cm for A4 portrait page to have 1cm margins. But
it's in wrong unit in current Kexi 3.1 Alpha (it's OK in 3.0.2). 
Even in 3.0.2 entering the value into Height is broken a bit, for 100% accuracy
it's easier to enter it in a text editor and copy-paste it to the property's
box.

On the report you see on the screen shot I inserted one label on top-left and
second on bottom-right corner of the report to show they are displaying OK.

Once you set up the margins and Detail section size, you would get one Detail
section per printed page. And fine control over report elements close to page
borders. Of course your printer capabilities are the limit regarding printing
on margins, Kexi won't detect that fully.

I am also attaching PDF exported from the screen shoted report, A4 with 4mm
margins and these two labels.

Summing up, there are issues but maybe different than you described. Also lack
of full documentation makes it hard to discover.

Thanks again.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.