How do you control lines per page if PDF output ?

[Ian Dalton]

SET LINES=xx doesn't appear to work. Identical code in 8.1.05 produces more lines per page than in 9.0.04. The SET LINES=xx statement appears to be ignored.

[David Beagan]

I just tried it in 8.2.07 and 9.1.0 and got the same result as you did.

[Guest]

Hi Ian

I would have thought PAPER might work but that didn't work for me.

What did work was telling WF that the Margins in the PDF LETTER size page will be different.

You can try this for an experiment:

TABLE FILE CARBY CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRYBY CAR.COMP.CARBY CAR.CARREC.MODELBY CAR.BODY.BODYTYPEON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEADON TABLE SET ASNAMES ONON TABLE NOTOTALON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDFON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ONON TABLE SET STYLE * INCLUDE = IBFS:/EDA/EDASERVE/_EDAHOME/ETC/warm.sty,$ PAGESIZE='Letter', TOPMARGIN=1.000000, BOTTOMMARGIN=8.000000,$ENDSTYLEEND

So in PDF, it looks like the trick is to talk in terms of what to do with the size of the page layout (by using both LETTER and the Margins) instead of the old school "how many lines to print on my dot matrix printer".

Hope that helps.

Toby

[David Beagan]

I guess this was discussed a while way back in 2007 on Focal Point:

controlling page breaks - Topic (informationbuilders.com)

[Ian Dalton]

Hi Toby, yes what you have suggested is a possibility (thanks) but means we have to change all our style sheets to cater for this.

Regards, Ian

[Ian Dalton]

Thanks for the link David - looks like SET LINES = xx is a no go in PDF format