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We are developing a complex structured report, this report has lots of fields and these fields get populated sometime. when these fields are not populated field placement changes for few fields around that empty field.

Is there a way to lock in a field at a particular place.

I extract report in PDF.

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I think you are fighting a loosing battle if you are trying to get pixel-perfect rendering, especially since it uses different rendering engines for different output types (e.g. pdf vs html).

Travis
Hi, Is there any way to do so, if i keep my output type constant
rsapru
Not that I know of, unfortunately.
Travis
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Hi There,

You can retain your layout (somewhat) by using rectangles to group or isolate your report items.

I am currently doing this for an executive summary report which contains five table items, two charts and several textboxes. By grouping the objects using rectangles I manage to always have the same layout.

lukehayler