Re: Oracle Reports 2.5 turning off page formatting (page breaks) for destype: file

Jason Gerard wrote:
>
> When running reports in character mode with a destype to file,
> you can specify directory and filename. ie: C:\temp\aaaaa.txt
>
> The problem I'm having is how can I format the report to generate
> this text file so the page formatting does not exist. In other words
> one continuous file.
>
> I've looked in the manual and can't seem to find how to eliminate
> page breaks. The only thing close is to make the page height larger,
> but there seems to be a limit of 500 inches on this parameter.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, Thanks

You can't ever completely disable Reports from formatting 'pages' since that is what the product is designed to do, but for most character reports you can make the output appear as if there weren't any page breaks to get the effect of continuous output. To do this, you need to expand the layout margins to fill the entire page area, and set up a printer definition file that doesn't inject any page/form feed character into the output stream for page breaks. You will also need to carefully set the print condition and sizing properties on each object to get the proper effect.

Stewart Wilson
Developer/2000

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