In report attributes, the value of footer margin is -1(I think, -1 is the default value).

But the first line of the footer is printed at arond 15th row on a page of length 56 rows.

Could anyone tell me how the footer started from 15th row?

Thanks.

What's in the footer layout? Row 15 of 56 seems a bit high. Could the footer have a multi-row, mainly blank text field? My other thought is that the page length really isn't 56.

Just grasping at straws here...

The problem could be either with the Page size or may be NEED or layout.

-- Avinash

A footer is not automatically printed at the bottom of the page, just like a header is not automatically printed at the top of the page!

According to my manual, skip.to() can not be used in header or footer layouts, otherwise I would have suggest:

after.sortfield.999:
before.layout:
skip.to(spool.pg.length - x) | X is # lines of footer layout


So I guess, when you want to force a footer layout to be printed at the end of the page, you also have to create a empty detail layout. In the before.layout section of this layout, you must indicate where to skip to.

detail.999:
before.layout:
skip.to(spool.pg.length - x) | x is # lines of footer layout