Document generation broken in v16.1

[qwerty]

At least you're enduring that situation. I'm in that game a bit longer than you but gave up a few years ago...

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[Geert Bellekens]

I tested again with the second beta of v17 (1701) and lo and behold, they actually fixed it

I still have some minor differences between the documents generated in v15.2 and v17, but nothing blocking anymore

- I had a few cases where the fontsize was different for a section coming from an linked document
- The order of elements was different for a model document that uses a query to get it's data

This took 1.5 years, and numerous testing cycles, but we finally got there.

Now I only need to wait for a stable v17 release to upgrade my clients.

Geert

[chrislro]

Sounds promising ... thank you for reporting!

[PeterHeintz]

Hm, stange. I still have the same problems with 1701.
I get Letter size instead of A4 and my hadings start with 1.1.1 rather than 1.

[Eve]

I get Letter size instead of A4

As much as I personally wish it was otherwise, to the best of my knowledge page sizes for all default documents and reports are intended to be letter. It is specified in the base documents. When running a report with the different types of templates I don't know which template the page size will come from.

my hadings start with 1.1.1 rather than 1.

We're still in the process of running more tests. I think now that Geert's issues are fixed (or mostly fixed) we've probably lost the most persistent advocate for getting this addressed. I'd encourage you to send in your templates etc so that we can test your particular scenario.

[PeterHeintz]

By fiddeling around with my templates I found a solution  to get the right header numbering.
So, now I want to get rid of the "letter" format to be able to have A4.
Eve what do you mean with "base documents", the template I use to generate?

[PeterHeintz]

There is an other problem with document generation in V1701. Several diagrams look odd. Mainly connectors to connect things start and end somewhere but not at the right place at all.

[Geert Bellekens]

I didn't notice that. I'll check again and report back.

Geert

[PeterHeintz]

Geert are you able to generate A4 instead of letter format and if so how?

[Geert Bellekens]

Geert are you able to generate A4 instead of letter format and if so how?

I haven't tried that either.

Geert

[Modesto Vega]

I haven’t tried version 17 yet, but in version 16 it is definitely possible to create templates with some pages/sections in A4 and some in A3, we did that yesterday. Hopefully this is not a v17 backwards change.

[PeterHeintz]

I had the "letter" problem with V16 as well. When I look in my template it is configured to use A4 even the template view looks nice but in the PDF I receive A4 with its content in letter. In other words only 75% of the A4 page is used.

[Modesto Vega]

When editing a template in v16, there is an option under Edit/Edit Section that controls the paper size. This is the section we use to control the page size and orientation of each section. I am assuming that this is still available in v17.

This is only available for custom templates, it is disabled for system template, I believe this what Eve is referring to as Base documents/templates. In our setup, all template have a default page size of A4 but I think this is printer dependent.

[PeterHeintz]

Well I use this as well and it is set to A4. The strange thing is I get A4 but used as letter. I only create PDF. Maybe I try RTF and Word to figure out if this is a PDF issue.

[PeterHeintz]

Now I used my template to generate RTF and word as output and the result is different to PDF but more or less identical for RTF and Word.
The horizontal space of the page is used right but vertically contend moves still much to early to the next page. Header and footer is entirely missed.
The diagrams are corrupted for any way PDF, RTF and Word.