PDF reports drop trailing ')' on negative Sub Total numbers

[Garth Colasurdo]

After upgrading to 9.2.3 (from 9.0.1) we are having a problem with the display of negative numbers that use the formatting D12.2CB. It drops the trailing ')' from the right most column in a sub or grand total.

It only happens on PDFs. HTML and Excel display correctly. Further it only seems to affect the second column after another negative column. The code is written in App Studio and has been working for many years.

Has anyone experienced this or behavior like this?

[David Beagan]

On WebFOCUS 9.1.0 I created this code:

 SET STYLE=WARM
 TABLE FILE GGSALES
 SUM 
 COMPUTE UNITS /D12.2CB = -1 * UNITS;
 COMPUTE DOLLARS2/D12.2CB = -1 * DOLLARS;
 BY REGION
 BY ST
 BY CITY
 ON REGION SUB-TOTAL
 ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
 END

When I run I don't see any dropped parenthesis. What happens when you run in on your release?

[Garth Colasurdo]

When I make a simple test against the Cars sample, I don't get the dropped parenthesis either. However, for our suite of financial reports it started showing up. This makes it hard to share with support. We can't tell if it is an interaction with the PDF engine, style sheets, or a change to the FOCUS code.