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Calculating Page Printing Size

When printing fixed sized forms, those set to use a list view, this can be handled in a number of ways. One way is to take the length of your paper, subtract the margins, subtract the size of all parts other than the body then divide the remaining amount by the number of records you want to show. This will give you the size to make the Body part.

Another method is double-clicking the Body part and setting the number of occurrences before a page break happens.

If using a Summary field on the layout, you don't need a Subsummary part for the totals for that page. You can place a summary field within the Footer area for the totals for just that page.
Contributed by Matt

Printing from the right table

Report printing seems straight forward, when all the data is right there in your portal. But wait, a portal can't print any more lines than the maximum setting for the portal. This means you should print your report from the file where most of the data is.

With an invoice print out you find most of the data in the line items file. So, an invoice should be printed from the line items table. Just keep asking yourself, "Where is the bulk of the repeating data?" - and print from that file instead.
Contributed by Matt