I wanted to put a description that reads, "Coal emits 2x more CO2 than Natural Gas".
But as you can see, it was cut in the middle.
How can I show it fully? & How do I place it in the middle, as if I would place a line in the middle of the page a MS Word?
I know that I can show the hidden words if I make the graph lager, but I want to know if there is any other way that I can do it. Thanks
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I'm making in interactive map of Russia. I need to select its regions on the picture for I can work with them. But it works incorrectly. When I try to select first region it's okay. But then I try to select another adjacent region just making new levers to existing contours. After I close the path, I want this region to become the full second area in the picture. But when I try to highlight this area, it turns out that Inkscape doesn't count this as an area. It believes that this is just a new open line. It turns out that a new area has not formed.In the picture you can see that the boundaries of the area are not highlighted everywhere, therefore the area remains open (it is not an area at all, it is a piece of a broken line)
You're using the wrong kind of object for your work. What you need is indeed a set of closed paths, but what you have is the borders only.
The easiest way to convert one into the other is to:
make sure all the separate borders touch at their ends
select all the separate borders
Path > Combine them into a single path
put a large rectangle below this combined path that covers the full area below
select both
Path > Division
Now you should have the lines cut through the rectangle.
Remove the parts you do not need, and close any gaps that are left.
I've been searching and searching for an answer to my question, but I can't seem to find anything. Does anyone know of a way to wrap/float text around a chart or image in SSRS? I was hoping for some kind of option similar to the blue one below in Word, but no luck there:
I found the following post, which has a good example image of what I'm looking for, but doesn't have any helpful answers (I'm not using Crystal Reports, I'm using BIDS SSRS through Visual Studio 2015).
Crystal report (or SSRS) flowing text around image
I've tried the following:
Overlaying a text box on top of the image (rendering shoves the image below the text)
Trying to find or create a mad scientist algorithm that can split the text after a certain number of characters, but not in the middle of a word, chop off the rest, and continue the rest of the text in a separate textbox under the image (not a mad scientist, so no luck)
Thanks for any tips!
There's no built in way to do this in SSRS.
Someone wrote a function that determines how many pixels are in a given text string.
Truncate textbox content with ellipsis in SSRS
Public Function TextWidth(str As String) AS Double
'Returns the width, in pixels, of a string, assuming Tahoma size 8.
Dim size As System.Drawing.SizeF
Dim font As New system.Drawing.Font("Tahoma", 8)
size = System.Windows.Forms.TextRenderer.MeasureText(str, font)
TextWidth = size.Width
End Function
You may be able to use this to figure out where to make a break in the first text box and spill the rest to the second. You'd just need to do testing to figure out how many pixels of text your first text box holds.
Once you figure out how many pixels would fit (I would just fill the first text box with text then use the function to see how many pixels that text is), change the other TextCap function to return either the first or second part at the pixel split. You could add an Argument in the function to indicate whether to return the first or second part of the text. Then use the function in the first text box to return the first part and the second part in the second text box.
It's a bit of work but seems feasible. It depends on how bad you want it and how much time you have.
I have a report with a bunch of controls in the Detail section.
I am working off a word document that was given to me as a sample and I recreated it in access almost perfectly. What I need now is a way to handle overflowing the text boxes. I have "Can Grow" enabled, but here is the real issue:
I have a fake table going on. Multiple text boxes arranged in a way that just doesn't work in a subform. Certain cells have red, green or yellow backgrounds while others are just plain white. When one of the text fields overflows, and "grows", the other text boxes in the same row stay the same size as before and it looks very very odd (703 twips vs 300). I would really just love for it to work as if it were a table in word/excel and the entire row would grow at once (all =703 twips), but seeing as how it isn't literally a "row" I just want a way to associate the height of these text boxes with each other.
Is anything like this possible? If I need to clarify anything just let me know, I hope I've given ample information.
In the design view of your report select all the textbox controls in the detail section and all the labels in the page header section. Right click on one of the textbox controls and select Layout -> Tabular. The controls and labels should now align with each other.
You've not set which version of Access you're using but this works in Access 2007.
Ok here we go. So I had a fake table, I needed it to have table borders around each text box and when one text box got taller than the others in the row, the borders would look totally wrong. So, what we have to do is literally draw on the report at runtime, which can be done in any view including print preview. This code must be placed in the Print event
'step one. find out which box in the row has the greatest height value.
'You can come across this information however you want.
'It will likely depend on what data goes in the boxes.
'For the sake of the answer length we will skip that actual code
'step two. Take measurements and store them in variables.
'You will need a start point, and an end point in standard (x1,y1),(x2,y2) form.
Dim t As Integer 'top
Dim l As Integer 'left
Dim b As Integer 'bottom
'step three. Use these measurements and draw your lines.
'Try to use looping if your naming and report layout work will allow it.
Me.Line (l, t)-(l, b), RGB(0, 0, 0)
' (x1,y1)(x2,y2),pick a color
'We just drew a line straight down the length of the control
'If you plan ahead, and place a line on the report permanently on top of the first row
'and below every row, you will only need to draw vertical lines.
'The lines below each row will be pushed down by the tallest control
I hope this helps. I had no idea this stuff existed before at all. Here is the MSDN info about it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa221362%28v=office.11%29.aspx
OK...
1 - Go into Design view of your report
2 - Select ALL the textbox controls in the detail section that you want to be table like and ALL grow if any one grows.
3 - Right click on one of the selected textbox controls and select Layout -> Tabular.... but... now... after you have your textbox row controls as a tabular layout... You must do one thing more...
4 - Inside your reports FORMAT TAB properties... Set ALL PADDING properties to 0.00... 0.00 for Top Padding, 0.00 Right Padding, 0.00 Left Padding and 0.00 Bottom Padding. (default is usually around 0.0208)
5 - Please note that changing your textboxes to a Tabular Layout kinda throws your textboxes to the right (at least for me) so you may need to re-adjust them so they are aligned with your Page Header textboxes again (if you have any that you might be using to header name your table like columns).
6 - Make sure ALL SPACE is removed in the detail area by having the bottom bar (page or report footer) snugly up against the bottom of your Tabular Textbox Layout and also ditto with the upper detail bar (page or report header).
7 - Now when you look your report in print preview with max 200% or more zoom you WILL still see very very minor spaces between your cells in your layout but when you actually print they will be almost unnoticeable unless you take out a magnifying lens.
I found a solution for my situation but I would like to have a better one...
In my case, a TextBox at the left side is describing the content of 1 to 3 pictures on the right side. The TextBox, if enlarging more than the height of the first picture, would shift pictures 2 and 3 down, in spite of a properly designed Top-Attribute in the picture controls.
My solution: I put the height attribute of the text box to 15cm (e.g 2 Inch) and enable it as shrinkable.
However, strange, but this helps for positioning the Pictures at its desired Top-Locations... :-) as well as minimizing the horizontal space used.
I have a report in SQL Server Reporting Services 2005. It makes use of a page header and footer and has no subreports. The body portion contains a few smaller elements and then a simple single column table. The table has a single header row and a single detail row. The header is just a label, basically. The detail row is a single textbox with a simple Fields!FieldName.Value as its output.
The problem is that FieldName, in this case, is a highly variable length string. It can be a sentence up to 8000 characters (usually no more than 2 pages worth). The text can contain line/paragraph breaks (returns) but no other special formatting. Everything is fine so long as the content fits on one page. Once the text exceeds a single page (8.5x11), the text is very nastily cut off abruptly. Since this is a pagination problem, it is only visible when exporting to PDF or when viewing the report in Print Layout.
It seems as though there is a maximum size the row can grow to on the first page and then it chops it off and starts it up on the second. But this cutoff is not carefully managed in relation to the text. It can occur right in the middle of a line, causing it to show the top halves of the letters on the first page and the bottom halves at the top of the second page.
Obviously, this is unacceptable, as it looks very unprofessional and can impair the readability of the line that was so messily split. I also can never be sure it'll split badly, as sometimes it more or less ends the page evenly, though usually I can still see the hanging tails of certain letters on the next page (g and p for instance).
The secondary problem is that I'd really like the table row header to repeat on each page. Setting the obvious property, "RepeatOnNewPage" has no effect. I suspect this is because it's still trying to show the single really vertically tall row. It seems like it's okay repeating headers and splitting pages nicely between detail rows. But because this is basically just a big block of text, and thus just one really tall row, it doesn't split it nicely.
What can I do or use to solve this problem? I can live without the repeating header so long as it just doesn't cut off text in the middle of a line.
Unfortunately, page break fine tuning is one of the biggest weak points of SSRS.
I can only suggest that you break up the long text into multiple rows before SSRS ever gets it. You'd want to parse the text to look for word breaks. The result will be odd looking breaks in the output since you won't know where the break will come on a line in the printed report. However, it'd be much more readable than cutting text in half.
If the text is comprised of reasonably sized paragraphs, you could parse it out that way instead.
You might even go so far as to measure the text using SQLCLR and the System.Drawing.Graphics.MeasureString method to fine tune the output but I wouldn't recommend that route for the feint of heart.
In SSRS 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2008:
Click (not-right click) a textbox and go to the properties window (lower right side of VS) -> KeepTogether = false.
The text will cleanly cut between a line and continue on the next page.
Just thought to add here as searching for this doesn't return many results.
I have done what JC has suggested in the past where I've broken down the text into paragraphs and each paragraph would in effect be its own row. Works pretty well given the limitations of SSRS.
One thing to be careful about is that you would need to make sure that your paragraphs sort properly. In most cases it would display them in the correct order, but adding in a column with sortID to give some sorting hints to the table would probably be a good idea.
In the end, the cut-off-text problem was due to non-standard padding on the textbox in question.
For whatever reason, having padding any greater than the defaults (2pt all around) seemed to cause its pagination to go sour. I imagine it is due to the algorithm not taking padding into consideration when deciding where to break the paragraph. With default padding, the line always ends cleanly and nicely on each page.
As a workaround (since I liked the extra white space the padding gave to the layout), I used a rectangle to achieve the border and made the textbox inside it smaller than the rectangle by about an eighth of an inch. This gave the box some inner padding while still apparently allowing the pagination to correctly determine when to break up lines.
Still, a lot of unnecessary headache.
RS2008 - pie chart
I have 'outside' labels with lines pointing to the segment (although strangely this only appears to work in pdf output)
However (see pic below) the label is appearing outside the scope of the chart area
How can I force it to remain inside? (MinimumRelativePieSize is set to 70)
(pic below missing due to not being able to find an image host that isn't blocked by corp firewall)
Picture a pie chart of 25 slices, with radial lines that project through the sides.
The line from each slice then becomes horizontal, before disappearing outside.
(above actually fits tune of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds")
I set MinimumRelativePieSize to 50 and it seems to work ok.
I guess they need to implement a MaximumRelativePieSize property.