Borders on Cells Not Rendering Correctly

> I am creating a report where I need to create a border around a series
> of cells. It looks great when viewing it in Report Manager; however
> (there is always a however) when I print the report some borders are
> thin and of a lighter weight than they should be.
> My cells have a 0 padding, so I thought was an issue. I changed the
> padding to 2pt - no luck.
> Any ideas? Any work-arounds? Is this an 'undocumented feature'?
Some things to try:
If you have the borders defined on one side and not the other (in other
words, the cell on the left has a right border defined) then try
setting the left border for the cell on the right.
If you have both borders defined as described above, try turning off
one or the other.
Yes, I realize those two things are contradictory, but I've personally
had times when one worked and not the other for whatever magical
reason.
I've also had cases where setting the background color to "white"
instead of "transparent" helped - and vice versa. I've had cases where
alternating the background color of rows causes the problem.
Basically, just tinker with the settings and hope for the best.having the same problems - anyone find any solutions? Can someone from
Msoft confirm there are issues with this functionaility?
cphite@.hotmail.com wrote:
> > I am creating a report where I need to create a border around a series
> > of cells. It looks great when viewing it in Report Manager; however
> > (there is always a however) when I print the report some borders are
> > thin and of a lighter weight than they should be.
> > My cells have a 0 padding, so I thought was an issue. I changed the
> > padding to 2pt - no luck.
> > Any ideas? Any work-arounds? Is this an 'undocumented feature'?
> Some things to try:
> If you have the borders defined on one side and not the other (in other
> words, the cell on the left has a right border defined) then try
> setting the left border for the cell on the right.
> If you have both borders defined as described above, try turning off
> one or the other.
> Yes, I realize those two things are contradictory, but I've personally
> had times when one worked and not the other for whatever magical
> reason.
> I've also had cases where setting the background color to "white"
> instead of "transparent" helped - and vice versa. I've had cases where
> alternating the background color of rows causes the problem.
> Basically, just tinker with the settings and hope for the best.

Borders on Cells Not Rendering Correctly

I am creating a report where I need to create a border around a series
of cells. It looks great when viewing it in Report Manager; however
(there is always a however) when I print the report some borders are
thin and of a lighter weight than they should be.
My cells have a 0 padding, so I thought was an issue. I changed the
padding to 2pt - no luck.
Any ideas? Any work-arounds? Is this an 'undocumented feature'?Yeah, I get the same thing sometimes when I export to PDF. Normally it's
because of overlapping report items that don't appear to be overlapping in
the designer. If I select the two items and use menu (Formatting, Vertical
Spacing, Remove Vertical Spacing), it fixes my issues. Hope this helps.
Steve MunLeeuw
"JJodon" <jjodon@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am creating a report where I need to create a border around a series
> of cells. It looks great when viewing it in Report Manager; however
> (there is always a however) when I print the report some borders are
> thin and of a lighter weight than they should be.
> My cells have a 0 padding, so I thought was an issue. I changed the
> padding to 2pt - no luck.
> Any ideas? Any work-arounds? Is this an 'undocumented feature'?
>|||Thanks for the reply, Steve.
I see what you me in regards to two objects (a subreport and a table);
however Imy issues are with cells in the same table. I tried your trick
and the Horz. and Vert. Spacing options are not available.
Steve MunLeeuw wrote:
> Yeah, I get the same thing sometimes when I export to PDF. Normally it's
> because of overlapping report items that don't appear to be overlapping in
> the designer. If I select the two items and use menu (Formatting, Vertical
> Spacing, Remove Vertical Spacing), it fixes my issues. Hope this helps.
> Steve MunLeeuw
>|||Has anybody else found a solution to this problem? I am having the exact
same results with borders in a table. Some of the detail rows have different
border widths than others. That doesn't make any sense.
BJ
"JJodon" wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Steve.
> I see what you me in regards to two objects (a subreport and a table);
> however Imy issues are with cells in the same table. I tried your trick
> and the Horz. and Vert. Spacing options are not available.
>
> Steve MunLeeuw wrote:
> > Yeah, I get the same thing sometimes when I export to PDF. Normally it's
> > because of overlapping report items that don't appear to be overlapping in
> > the designer. If I select the two items and use menu (Formatting, Vertical
> > Spacing, Remove Vertical Spacing), it fixes my issues. Hope this helps.
> >
> > Steve MunLeeuw
> >
>|||Same problem here! I can find very few reported incidents of this anywhere -
if anyone can shed some light on this problem, please do.
"bjkaledas" wrote:
> Has anybody else found a solution to this problem? I am having the exact
> same results with borders in a table. Some of the detail rows have different
> border widths than others. That doesn't make any sense.
> BJ
> "JJodon" wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply, Steve.
> >
> > I see what you me in regards to two objects (a subreport and a table);
> > however Imy issues are with cells in the same table. I tried your trick
> > and the Horz. and Vert. Spacing options are not available.
> >
> >
> > Steve MunLeeuw wrote:
> > > Yeah, I get the same thing sometimes when I export to PDF. Normally it's
> > > because of overlapping report items that don't appear to be overlapping in
> > > the designer. If I select the two items and use menu (Formatting, Vertical
> > > Spacing, Remove Vertical Spacing), it fixes my issues. Hope this helps.
> > >
> > > Steve MunLeeuw
> > >
> >
> >|||If you post a sample report I can see if I reproduce on my machine.
Steve MunLeeuw
"JJodon" <jjodon@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am creating a report where I need to create a border around a series
> of cells. It looks great when viewing it in Report Manager; however
> (there is always a however) when I print the report some borders are
> thin and of a lighter weight than they should be.
> My cells have a 0 padding, so I thought was an issue. I changed the
> padding to 2pt - no luck.
> Any ideas? Any work-arounds? Is this an 'undocumented feature'?
>