We produce a lot of financial reports that are created as pdfs and are then sent to a 'printers' for turning into A4 brochures for the client. Each one is printed on A3 sheets that are then bound etc into A4 which means the reports have to be a fixed number of pages, ie 8, 12, 16 or 20 (etc), i.e. divisible by 4.

In the end I created 3 sections in CR that basically are 'Blank page left for notes' style text boxes with each one having a page break after it. The supression of each of these sections is controlled through a report parameter. From within my Windows app, I set all 3 parameters to 'suppress', determine how many pages the report is and then re-set the parameters accordingly and then print the report. i.e. if the report has a 'natural count' of 11 pages, then I set one of the parameters to false and therefore that section (and page) is not supressed, which then gives me 12 pages!

Don't know whether this will ever help anyone but it sure felt good when it worked the first time. Just a shame I was £500 worse off with paying those consultants to come up with an idea which didn't work!

For the first blank section:

TotalPageCount \ 4 = 0

 

For the second:

TotalPageCount \4 <= 1

 

For the third:

TotalPageCount \4 <= 2

 

Using the modulus operator '\' (as opposed to the division operator '/') gives you the remainder of the division operation.  So this looks at the remainder when you divide the page count by 4 and determines which sections need to be printed.

 

-Dell