I might be partly wrong but I believe it has a lot to do with you page size (and possibly printer chosen). If I chose letter size /potrait the result is very similar to your example ( Landscape does not). The gap should be improved but that would be enhancement fix
Not sure about endnotes but it might be too much to fit on the page but it seems that RM should do a better job with formatting so that does not occur
I gave up on footnotes in RM a very long time ago. But it was not because of spacing issues such as yours. Rather, it was simply because footnotes take up too much room on each page and because footnotes do not support the option to combine duplicate footnotes. Endnotes do not have either one of these problems, so I always use endnotes instead of footnotes.
I do understand the advantage that footnotes provide so that your reader doesn’t have to turn to the back of the report to read your citations, but in this case it seems to me that the disadvantages of footnotes outweigh their advantages - even if the spacing problem didn’t exist. I’m a sample size of one and your mileage may vary.
Have you tried landscape mode as suggested by Kevin? Have you tried saving to a file in various formats and printing from there? I suspect you have already tried saving to a file, but I just wanted to be sure that as many solutions as possible were on the table.
@thejerrybryan and @kevync1985 Landscaped worked but my preference would portrait. I agree Endnotes are better. Just wondering thoughts on the picture. Landscape made it better but only because it moved the picture over to the right of the page and more center but it’s still overlapping the line with the name.
As others suggest, imagining the “big picture” is that a single page is being filled from various origin fields and additional options also REQUIRE placement in their specific general area (ie. space for an endnote is “carved out”~reserved?) near page bottom and publish date is up in the corner, etc.). These all impact as overlays to the page layout. My example:
A “little” accommodation can also be had via changing font/fontsize -or- (in my example) alter Title to not use [Person] variable and (instead) I could just “type” a shortened Title “temporarily” for the report.
adding to what others have said – well you might not expect it to perfect, there should be a better gap between name and pic on portrait (that should be any easy fix)
having too much info is different problem but RM should minimize the users ability to “break” and have that occur
Yes, the happenstance of how the number of children in a particular family may just barely fit near page bottom, as opposed to less children leaving some space for the endnote and a greater number causing overflow to the next page, etc. is likely difficult to “automate” perfectly (again, font style and size can have unanticipated visual effect).
Thanks! On a small victory I had the same issue you showed above (title running over the date), so I moved the date to the footer and that worked for me. BTW I like the tip on “customizing’ the title!
Essentially, the “preview” lacks some granularity or precision (ie. resolution) because it’s just an emulation. So, I suspect the document allows for those “overlays” to possibly be preserved as separate entities that “land” somewhere in the document and may be adjustable or movable if the right editing facility is used that supports such features/concepts. It’s why You and I haven’t created any competing program, for sure, LOL!
but the same settings with anecdotal testing produce a much diff PDF ver than WORD – the WORD is usable the PDF wasn’t / insn’t. (Using Save as PDF not print to PDF)
I’m with you. I prefer footnotes. I want the source citation information for the fact on the same page as the source information being cited so that it would accompany that information if that one page gets separated from the remaining pages (if someone in the future just needs the information on that page and not the entire report).