by James Bott » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:05 pm
I believe what he wants is to print as many fields (in order) as will fit within the width of a portrait page in one report, then pick up on the next field on a second report, etc.
This will require calculating the width of each field based on the field width and the width of a dummy string of characters (usually uppercase B's) of the same length as the field spec. You use uppercase B's because nothing actually in the field will be wider than that. Also the printable width of the printer will have to be considered. I don't know that anyone has done this, but I am sure it can be done.
I did something similar a long time ago, but all the fields were the same width so it was easy.
James