Posted 15 December 2017, 8:14 am EST
My company has started using Active Reports 11 to create some new letters for one of our clients. Things were going well but I’ve hit a snag that I can’t figure out how to work around.
Textboxes with conditional content never seem to fully disappear when exporting as a DOCX, they always leave behind at least a line break even when CanShrink = True. I’ve tried setting the textbox visibility to hidden but then even more line breaks appear to fill the space of the hidden textbox. I’ve even tried setting the content to null, but the linebreak still persists. Everything looks fine in the preview and when I export to other formats like PDF, so I suspect it has something to do with either my textbox settings or the export process.
Unfortunately changing to a different file type is not a possibility as the client wants to be able to occasionally edit the content of a letter in Word after it’s been generated. DOC files export in a not so user friendly state and would not be an acceptable replacement, though I believe they suffer from the same issue as the DOCX files.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.