Rounded-corners issue

[moonunit]

Hello all,

I've created a rounded-box look which works very nicely for outputting each record [page per record, A5 landscape] and I want to continue this theme into a summary page from an alternate table.

My first attempt hasn't quite worked however...

What I want to achieve is a rounded-rectangle border which spans the printed page, and I presumed that the way to achieve this would be to create a non-continuous frame in the header; turn it the other way up in the footer and have the whole thing joined up by the edges within the body.

I've created a columnar list/report, with a breakfield sub-summary part.

At either edge of both the sub-summary part and each record in the body, I've added a vertical line which creates a working border left/right.

Then in the header part I added a rounded-rectangle; then a white space rectangle to kill the bottom of the rounded-rectangle, and finally 2 vertical lines so that the header box apparently joins the body part borders.

But once I've added the footer (down) rounded-rectangle , etc., I end up with dead white space, in the body part. Evidently the 18 records I'm summarising aren't big enough to take up the slack between my fixed header and footer, and the page dims.

In other words, this isn't working because no one part is flexible enough to adjust.

I have tweaked it by adjusting both the sub-summary and the body heights - and this works, but it's going to require much editing each time I come to use it...

Anybody got any better suggestions for how I might achieve this?

M-U

[Vaughan]

Keep report designs simple. Learn what FMP can do easily, what it can do with difficulty, and what it cannot do.

Page borders are difficult. They can be done but IMHO the effort (and maintenance problems) are not worth the effort.

[moonunit]

Thanks Vaughan for putting an end to this mission: I'll revert to exporting marked-up text to Quark, rather than wrestling this monster every time.

M-U