Page Attributes

Use these guidelines when designing page attributes.

• Page Size

  Use the standard Letter (8 ¾ x 11inches) size for reports. Most reports are destined to be printed. Consequently, using custom paper sizes is not acceptable. For those customers where the standard paper size is A4, the rendering engine will scale the report up to the A4 size.

• Orientation

  Standard report layouts should be defined as landscape or portrait. Landscape should be used as the default for most reports. Considerations for using a portrait layout include the width of data to be printed (for example, table data is 7 inches wide or less), industry standards, or common business practice. For example, customer invoices are customarily portrait orientation, thus the report layout is set up to print using portrait.

• Page Margins

  Margins for the top and bottom of the page shall not exceed 0.5 inches.

  The minimum margins are:

  Page Margin Minimums	Size
  Top	.03 inches
  Bottom	.03 inches
  Left	.03 inches
  Right	.03 inches

For reports that contain data in table format, left and right page margins should be set to match the margins shown when the table is centered. Report header and footer contents should align with the same margins as the displayed table data.

For additional alignment standards, see Multiple Row Tables - Position and Alignment Between Report Data Objects.