Exporting Reports to RTF format causes unexpected truncation

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  • Stephan Golux

    Exporting Reports to RTF format causes unexpected truncation

    Hello.

    I am using an access 97 application that exports a report to RTF format,
    which is subsequently emailed to various people.

    The main informational field in the report is a free form memo field
    which can be very short or very long.

    When the report is created in access, the formatting is fine. If you
    print it, is fine. No problem.

    When exported to RTF (and for that matter TXT or HTML formats) it
    appears that the software will sometimes truncate the data. It seems as
    if the exporting software wants to let the new format dictate word
    wrapping and font leading, which and it isn't always the same as that in
    the initial report. If the field in the RTF file would be a line longer
    than the field in the underlying report, the last line gets cut off.

    This happens consistently.

    So, for example:

    INITIAL FIELD AS SHOWN IN ACCESS REPORT:

    When, in the course of human events,
    it becomes necessary for one people
    to dissolve the political bands which
    have connected them with another

    EXPORTED TO RTF:

    When, in the course of human events,
    it becomes necessary for one people
    to dissolve the political bands
    which have connected them with

    Since, in the RTF version the word "another" wants to be on the next
    line, it just gets cut off.

    Any ideas on how to fix this?

    -s

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