Is there a method of scaling a report to fit a page?

rbuser

I have a report designed to fit onto an A3 page. The customer prints most of
this particular report on an A3 colour printer.

The report program and data is also sent to some of his customers. Some of
them have A3 printers, others have A4 only.

Can I scaledown the A3 to fit the A4 in an easy way?

Ideally, something like the facility in Excel, where you can say that this
report is to be printed 1 page high by 1 page wide (sort of thing) and Excel
scales everything to fit into 1 page.

In this report, I only need to set it to 1 page wide as the length is not
defined at design time. It is in landscape. On A3 it looks fine, but on A4
it would look a bit squished, but if they've only got an A4 printer, then
they get a squished report!

Suggestions?

TIA

Richard Quadling
Carval Computing Ltd.
Plymouth, UK

digitalmetaphors

There is no current example of how to scale report components to fit the
currently selected page. The current solution is to use two reports, one
for A3 and one for A4.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

Quite a lot of the more modern printer drivers (esp HP) offer this at the
driver level, independent of the application generating the output. Might
this be a route?

Justin Willey
IQX
Edinburgh

rbuser

So reports we design for US Letter (American standard) won't work on A4 (UK,
AUS, NZ, SA Standard)?

rbuser

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