Page overflow

Page overflow

When you insert many dynamically positioned elements in your output, then InterFormNG2 will automatically force a page overflow. This section covers the page overflow in details:

  1. Introduction
  2. Flexible header size.
  3. Flexible footer size - for a total on the last page.
  4. Block protection. How to protect a block of elements from being split up on two pages because of a page overflow.
  5. Page overflow troubleshooting 
Introduction

If you add a repeat loop, that iterates across many detail lines of your input file (XML or spooled file), then it will automatically force a new output page, when there is no more room on the current page. 

A simple repeat loop can e.g. simply print out all the numbers from 1 to 100:

 

When text elements are dynamically positioned in a vertical flow, they are arranged sequentially beneath each other. If there is no remaining space on the current page, a new page is automatically generated to accommodate the overflow.

 

The output looks like this:

 

If we also add a header and a footer, then template will look like this:

  

Before the additional output page is opened for output, the footer will be output to current page - if a footer has been defined for the page element.

 

If you insert a dynamically positioned container element (or any other dynamically positioned elements) in either the header or the footer, then the height of the header/footer is the combined height of all the dynamically positioned elements. Any design element with a fixed position does not affect the size of the header/footer.

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