Text_Area Cutoff In Printing

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I have a Text_Area field on a form. The print sliding on this field is setup to “allow height to grow”. I’m trying to print a paragraph of user entered text with this field. The print preview always shows up perfectly. However, when I actually print the form some of the words on the right hand side of the paragraph are getting cut off.

I’ve also tried using the pdf plugin to print to pdf. In general, this is more consistent than printing from the print preview, however I have had it cut off the right hand side of some text as well. Again the print preview looks perfect on the screen.

So far the only method I’ve been able to use to print a paragraph of text consistently is to have the user enter returns at the end of each line, so that there is no wrapping of text. Obviously this is a big hassle for the end user.

Any help is appreciated. I’m using R2 2.1.2-build 315 on Windows XP.

Craig

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Hi, and welcome in Servoy.

I did have a problem similar to yours and solved it changing the font in the fileds. Try changing them and good luck ;)

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Hi Craig,

If you are currently using Java 1.5, the following may also be helpful:
http://forum.servoy.com/viewtopic.php?t=4475&highlight=

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Thanks! Changing the font seems to have fixed the problem with printing from the print preview screen. I tested a couple of fonts and all of them seemed to work properly except for sansserif.

Now my only issue is with the pdf plugin. I have a form with a “List View”. As I tested it more I discovered that the problem is the “Text_Area” field for the first record in the list does not print slide properly (i.e. it doesn’t grow vertically). The “Text_Area” fields in the rest of the records grow perfectly. Again the print preview looks fine. Any suggestions?

Craig