Using Flowing Overflow in Power Painter

Reports using flowing overflow begin the report output at the upper left corner of the report object and fill the page with the report results. Flow margins are available which enable you to adjust the canvas so that flowing objects fill the page.

Note: Flowing overflow is not available for graphs, images, text, or lines. For example, if a graph is included in the document and the graph overlaps the report at run time, you must set a relationship between the graph and the report so the graph flows after the report at run time.

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Procedure: How to Set the Flowing Report Property

Select an object from the Power Painter canvas.
The properties palette shows the available properties for the selected object.

Select Flowing from the Sizing and Overflow drop-down list.

Tip: Flow margins are available for the canvas, which further enables you to adjust the page so that the report fills each page between the flow margins. For more information about flow margins, see How to Set Flow Margins for the Power Painter Canvas.
Run the document.

Note: If the document contains multiple flowing reports and the reports overlap at run time, you must set the relationship between the reports. For more information about setting relationships, see How to Relate Surrounding Objects to a Report.

Note: If the document contains a flowing report and a graph, and the graph overlaps the report at run time, you must set the relationship between the graph and the report. For more information, see How to Relate Surrounding Objects to a Report.

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Procedure: How to Set Flow Margins for the Power Painter Canvas

You can set the flow margins for the document, which become page margins in the report output, when Sizing and Overflow is set to Flowing for the report. Flow margins are set through the top and bottom margins, and flowing reports utilize flow margins to ensure that header and footer information is preserved in the output.

Note: There is currently no method of controlling horizontal overflow.

Select the canvas from Power Painter.

From the Document properties palette, manually type in the Flow margin: bottom value.
The flow margin bottom value sets the ending vertical coordinate where a flowing report ends on each page.

From the Properties window, manually type in the Flow margin: top value.
The flow margin top value sets the beginning vertical coordinate where a flowing report starts on each new page.

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You can also set flow margins on the canvas. To display flow margins, select Layout from the toolbar menu and select Show Flow Margins.

Note: Flow margins are indicated by blue lines that appear on the top and bottom of the Power Painter canvas.

Adjust the objects on the canvas between the flow margins and run the report.
The report fills each page between the flow margins until it reaches the end. For example, in the image below the flow margin was adjusted so that an image could be used as a header.