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Changes up to 1.8c – 1st April 2003

Viewer – bitmaps (added with leaf.Bitmap) in page subsequently used as an Overlay failed to appear on the printed output or when the page was copied to a metafile. Fixed.

Page references – support added for XML-style tag to resolve references to bookmarks as page numbers. Text such as <pageref "FIRST" /> will be replaced when the report is complete with the actual page number. The bookmark may well not exist at the point it is referenced (typically in a table of contents), but it should have been defined by the time the report is closed or spooled. If not, the string ‘ERR’ will show instead of a page number. A ‘special’ bookmark is NUMPAGES which will be replaced by the number of pages in a report. This may be represented on the master- page by &n so a typical footer could read “Page &p of &n” here. Example function PageRef is the basic testbed.

Note that the bookmark is case-sensitive. You can omit the quotes unless it contains blanks, but you MUST end the tag with ‘/’ here in XML style.

Table footers – if a table came exactly to the bottom of the page, it could (very rarely) fail in looking for a location for the footer, even if the footer was not set. Now only looks when there is a footer, which would have forced a page-break further back if present, and avoided the problem.



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