Removing the Blank Line Between Title and Data in PDF Reports By Kasi Krishan

Have you ever noticed that there is a blank line between the report title and the first line of data? Have you ever wanted to remove it?

For example, when you execute the following code:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
CAR
HEADING CENTER
"CAR REPORT"
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT PDF
END

You can see there is a blank line between the column titles and first row of the data section. Actually, this is not a blank line, it is a space left over from the underlining of titles. (Thanks to Pietro De Santis.)

There are two options to remove this blank line.

Option 1: Remove the underline. (Thanks to Mickey.)

The space can be removed by eliminating the underline in the titles as follows (you can see the stylesheet section has been added):

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
CAR
ON TABLE HEADING CENTER
"Car Report"
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=TITLE, BORDER=LIGHT,BORDER-COLOR=WHITE,STYLE=BOLD,$
ENDSTYLE
END

The report output will look as follows:

Option 2: Move the heading to PageHeading. (Thanks to Piipster.)

Switch off the titles using AS ' ' and move the titles to the heading part as follows:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY AS ' '
CAR AS ' '
MODEL AS ' '
SEAT AS ' '
BODYTYPE AS ' '
ON TABLE HEADING CENTER
"Car Report"
" "
"COUNTRY <+0>CAR <+0>MODEL <+0>SEAT <+0>BODYTYPE"
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=HEADING, LINE=3, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=1, POSITION='N1',$
TYPE=HEADING, LINE=3, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=2, POSITION='N2',$
TYPE=HEADING, LINE=3, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=3, POSITION='N3',$
TYPE=HEADING, LINE=3, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=4, POSITION='N4',$
TYPE=HEADING, LINE=3, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=5, POSITION='N5',$
ENDSTYLE
END

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