Text cut off on right margin in textbox (CR ver 9) (1 Viewer)

[ausmoran]

I have tried all that I can think of and cannot figure it out! I have a number of reports in which I use text boxes for paragraphs of text. When I design the report in CR (version 9) everything looks fine. I ensure that the right edge of the text box does not come close to the edge of the page, and I also set the margin (in page setup) to .5, instead of the default .25. Yet still, when I run the reports, some of them cut off text on the right margin. The text is being cut off, despite the fact that it is not close to the edge of the report. I cannot figure this problem out. It is something that I have been working on for months.

Additionally, I have verified that the fonts used in the reports are available on the server, too! So that is not the problem.

I will be forever in your debt for any assistance that you might be able to provide. THANKS in advance,
- Austin

 

[boblarson]

Have you set the property of the text box to CAN GROW? Do you have the edge of the report in design view (not just the controls) moved over past the total margin area? So, if you have a report with .5 margins then your report area in design view should not extend past 7.5" if using Portrait mode and 10" in Landscape. It shouldn't be out to the actual paper size.

 

[Kempes]

I Noticed this sort of thing happening when changing the default printer for the report.
Check this out too. It may be where the problem lies.

 

[jeromemathew]

Hi
Have you ever got a solution for this issue? I am also having this issue now. any advice?
Regards
Jerome

I have tried all that I can think of and cannot figure it out! I have a number of reports in which I use text boxes for paragraphs of text. When I design the report in CR (version 9) everything looks fine. I ensure that the right edge of the text box does not come close to the edge of the page, and I also set the margin (in page setup) to .5, instead of the default .25. Yet still, when I run the reports, some of them cut off text on the right margin. The text is being cut off, despite the fact that it is not close to the edge of the report. I cannot figure this problem out. It is something that I have been working on for months.

Additionally, I have verified that the fonts used in the reports are available on the server, too! So that is not the problem.

I will be forever in your debt for any assistance that you might be able to provide. THANKS in advance,
- Austin

 

[PeterOC]

A couple of suggestions to try:
1. Put your control {YourField} inside a text object box.
2. Put a blank text box to the right of the one you want to stop bleeding off the edge.

 

[JayawantB]

Hey Guys, I was also facing the same issue and struggled a lot with different options and at last it worked!!!.

Following are the things I did. Right click the textbox and Go to properties

1) Enabled the "Can Grow" property of textbox with 0 number of lines
2) Set the Horizantal Alignment "Justified" instead of "Left"

and it should work now.

Hope so this will work and help to go ahead...

-Jayawant
Silicus Technologies

 

[buckshot]

I've had this same problem mainly with controls with date formats. On the right margin, the last number of the date is sometimes partially cutoff. I was able to fix this by simply changing the font. I was using Aptos (Detail) but simply changed to Aptos (Header) which fixed the issue. Arial and several other fonts also fixed this issue. Changing the Right Margin setting and other attempts did not fix the issue until I changed fonts.

 

[Gasman]

13 year old thread?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

This is, as Gasman points out, a 13-year-old thread (as of 9/27/24). We have seen many cases like this with different causes. Sometimes it is that the text exceeds 255 bytes and something sent the text through a function that was limited to that size string. Some API calls do that.

Other times it is a "glitch" in the code used by Windows GUI Text Rendering where the computation of how much space is involved gets a bit bollixed up. Depending on which version of Access you used, Forms vs. Reports use slightly different rendering methods. For example, the function that you can use to determine how much space your text occupies on reports didn't used to work on forms. (And I'm not sure if that has changed!) I had to call out an Excel function a few times to do that particular computation on a form. Didn't always work right in that context either.