Alignment pallet

joe935 · Post by **joe935** » 2007-02-03 18:03:03

How does one use the alignment pallet tools. I can find nothing about them in the help file. TIA

Post by **antp** » 2007-02-03 19:20:31

You mean in the report designer?
Select the elements to align (click on each item while the Ctrl key is pressed) before clicking on an icon of the toolbar.

joe935 · Post by **joe935** » 2007-02-03 19:41:30

I'm not sure if thats working for me. Here's what I want to do:
I have over 200 movies. I would like the report to evenly distribute all the titles over 6 columns (Only printing titles) so each column would have 34 titles and the last column 32. Is this possible.
I am trying to create a wallet listing of my titles so i know what I have when I go to purchase new DVDs.

Post by **antp** » 2007-02-03 19:49:34

The align palette is just to align the text blocks to have all them at the same height for example.
In your case you have to split the page in 6 columns (this is in one of the report options window, from file menu).
See the 3-column template as example.

joe935 · Post by **joe935** » 2007-02-03 19:55:11

I have the page split into 6 columns and each column is filled before the next column is started. So i end up with only 3 of the columns being used.

joe935 · Post by **joe935** » 2007-02-03 20:04:34

If you would like to see the template you can download it here:
http://www.geocities.com/joe91735/3smalla.zip

joe935 · Post by **joe935** » 2007-02-03 20:09:06

won't work with the space in the name download this:
http://www.geocities.com/joe91735/3smalla.zip

joe935 · Post by **joe935** » 2007-02-03 20:46:50

OK, I found the work around I selected the #10 envelope and it does what I want. One other thing, If i select any of the custom forms the size windows remain blocked. Is this a bug?

Post by **antp** » 2007-02-03 21:24:00

What do you mean by "custom forms"?

joe935 · Post by **joe935** » 2007-02-03 21:42:03

Sorry, It's paper size.. The last 3 items are Custom 1 to 3. I would imagine if any of those are selected , one should be able to enter the size of the paper, No?

Post by **antp** » 2007-02-04 10:42:14

These depend on your printer driver, so the size has to be entered in the printer properties I guess.
With mine I do not have these, but the last one of the list is "Cutom..." which allows to enter a size in the boxes below.

joe935 · Post by **joe935** » 2007-02-04 11:02:22

Ah , Ok i found it in my printer prefs. Thanks for the quick responses.