Question about how page breaks work with groups about fluentreports HOT 1 CLOSED

If I understand your question correctly, then the answer is yes. If you are printing a Grid; then it will break the grid before; and reprint headers and everything for you and your items will fall the way you are discussing.

If you are printing free flow text; then it will print as much of the text; then break it. However, since you are totally in charge of each part of the report at the point you are generating the report you can very easily first ask the engine how much space this "data" you are going to output takes (just before outputing it); and then call newPage() if it is too big. Does that make sense?

As for the pre-rendering; it hasn't even been touched. It is a feature idea; and their haven't been any +1 to it; so it isn't a high priority. And yes, it would allow the engine to know the total number of pages.

But if you really want to know the total number of pages; you can actually render the report twice and save the page number of the final summary; then use that number in the second generation of the report. ;-)

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