We had a problem with our mail server. Mail was missed as a result. After posting my most recent post I have just seem Ricahrds and ceadge most rencetn posts. I ma reading, addressing and implimenting the suggestion(s) now.

Wind is your friend
Matt

my results rgarding Richards 'entity' solution possibility:

                                         Char Hex Character EntityName

                                         - 2D #045; --> - ‐ --> ‐"

I tried:
<%= replace(Trim(Bases(1)),"-","#045;") %> it still wraps

The plus sign + 2B #043; --> + &plus; --> &plus;

Just for piece of mind I thought to try a different char (+):
<%= replace(Trim(Bases(1)),"-","#043;") %> This stops wrapping however as ecpected places a + in place of the hyphen.

Woud it be safe to say that option is exhausted?
BTW: That entities link is gold, thanking you it will be very useful in the future.

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Now I read Richards second post. It worked!!!!!
For anybody wanting this solution, this is the style on the <td>:
.THLiteNoWrap {border: #FDAE1C 1px solid; background-color: #FFF1D9;white-space: nowrap;}

This is the style iside the <span> tag that maked the text vertical etc..:
.InstructArialVert {writing-mode: tb-rl;filter: flipv fliph; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10px; color: #000000;background-color: #FFF1D9;}

Thankyou Richard, meow, Imar and ceadge for your time assisting me. My objective has been achieved!! sorry for my clear frustration earlier on in this post. I am very grateful and a little embarrassed, you all have a fine day.

Wind is your friend
Matt

mmmmmm should this be a new post?

As I have said the initial problem has been solved however when I print the report the vertical text is not readable. My best description is. It appears to go bold (looks more black than normal black bold) the spacing between the letters is reduced by at least 50% (some letters there is no spacing) The arial 11pt looks like a 'fuzzy dark bold Times New Roman on steriods'

> My deliverable was to make the report fit A3 landscape width wise. The vertical text solution spoken about in this post achieved that objective however printing this text(the PMS report) is now the problem.
Please note: On screen, including the print preview it all looks good. I am on the way back to the office to print the report on several different printers to eliminate the printer as the problem (the printers on the client site are new and look like very high quality). When I get there I will scan the problematic printed version to upload for anybody who is interested in assisting.

Has anybody printed vertical text successfully? If so what font type? I am using Arial 11pt - I guess my next move is to try different fonts? Any thoughts on this one?

TYIA

Wind is your friend
Matt

Good day - I have uploaded another image to:

http://www.framegroup.com.au/frameNetFTP/index.asp
UN = test.user
PW = test

This is one image showing the performance management system view, print preview (A3 landscape) view and a scanned image of the printed A3 landscape outcome. The problem becomes clear once you look at the image, this problem is desscribed in my previous post.

Any ideas/assiatance would be much appreciated.

TYIA

Wind is your friend
Matt

I have been told a printer driver or file of some could be a solution. Unfortunatley this is not an option due to a strict SOE. I have decided to try and reach my objective using ASP/VBScript instead.

For any person looking at this post trying to acheive a similar objective I have created a function. It does whats its supposed to however behaves badly on the first iteration of the loop. I have posted It to the appropriate area of this forum:

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=48259

Thank you again to those who gave me thier time here.

Wind is your friend
Matt

Of course this is spam; especially when you post the same message over and over again.....

How is this "creativity" different from body parts enlargements, cheap ********************es and creative use of "inside knowledge" of upcoming stock funds?

Please don't do this....

Imar

Gaah! Someone ban this bot!

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