Crystal Report (Question ???)

Post Author: DubweiserTM
CA Forum: General
Hi everybody !As per the two pictures below...In the second pictures, why I can't use the space left by the Page Footer a section to put other things ? When I put some additionnals lines in the Details b section, these lines goes on another page.Only for additionnal informations, the Page Footer a is suppressed when PageNumber=TotalPageCount... I hope I was clear with my question...Thanks in advance !

Post Author: rpt_Maker
CA Forum: General
DubweiserTM:
I've experienced this also with some of my reports. In my case it has to do with the size of the paper vs. the amount of data returned in the details for a group, with a new page after in the group footer. That blank area is unaddressable space created by a page feed - a new page after or new page before setting. If you truly do have that much space to use on the page, try making the page footer larger and insert some fields there to test with.
This is vague, I know.

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