I have a set of reports created with SQL Server Business Intelligence Studio 2008.
Reports run on SSRS 2008 and exported to PDF.
In PDF files, however, some of the text cannot be found by "Find". If this text is copied from PDF and pasted into a text document, a strange combination of symbols is pasted - i.e. Copy "1400" from PDF and "1e4d0it0e" is pasted, see screenshot below.
Another strange feature: the same field, in this case "Id", is presented in two tables in the same report, and in the first case some Ids are "garbled" in PDF, but in the second all are rendered correctly. I can see no visible differences between tables.
Any ideas on how to prevent such behaviour?
I found why this is happening, even though it makes no sense to me.
Where the text is displayed properly in the PDF, the textbox has a setting CanGrow=true.
Where the text is "garbled" in PDF after Copy-Paste, the textbox has a setting CanGrow=false.
Changing the setting on the textbox fixes the issue.
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I am trying to convert a pdf file to a crystal report file, is that even possible? IS there a software tool out there that does that?
I have looked on-line but can't find anything
The answer is no.
But given that the question is a bit odd (Crystal needs a data source), perhaps what you are after is embedding a PDF form outline in Crystal.
That can be done by inserting the PDF (or an image of the form) in the page header and taking advantage of the 'Uderlay Following Sections' option. This would make the form outline act as the background for the rest of the report, allowing you to position dynamic content on top of that image.
I have an SSRS (2012) .rdl main report that calls a subreport. This subreport is displaying a column which is a very long string.
If I call the subreport directly, this column displays the entirety of the text.
If I call the main report (which subsequently calls, among others, the afforementioned subreport), the preview in the SSRS page also shows the entire text as it's supposed to, but when I export it to .pdf or excel, all the text after the first line is missing (the first line of text is shown, and the rest of the space where the text should is just blank).
This issue does not occur when calling the subreport directly, but it does when I call the main report.
Furthermore, I have 2 environments with these reports installed, Production and Development, and the issue does not occur in Development, but it does in Production, and only if I call the main report!
I have already checked all the .rdl, .rsd and .dll files installed on both environments, and all of them are exact matches. The text itself, is the same for this column on both databases (I think). I have confirmed that "Page Width >= Body Width + Left Margin + Right Margin", also I tried on the Report Properties changing the margins from cm to Inches and back to cm to get the margins rounded up by 4 or 5 decimal digits, none of it worked.
I have looked extensively for problems similar to mine, but none of them were properly answered. I have no idea what is causing this, but considering that the subreport works just fine, that the same main report works fine in Development, and that even on the preview of the Production environment all of the text is shown, I suspect it may have something to do with the exporting process. The browser used is always the same in all scenarios, IE11. The PDF is Acrobat Reader DC.
Any help is deeply appreciated.
I am having a really weird issue with a report built in SSRS 2008. When the report is set to export as a PDF, all data fields are showing up properly on each page as intended. However when the report is run in BIDS mode or exported to Word/CSV/Excel formats there are several data fields that show up as a blank.
One weird thing Ive noticed is that if I set the data fields that are missing as First(Fields!datafield.value) instead of Fields!Datafield.value then they will show up.
Has anyone ever seen any instances of this happening or have any ideas how to correct this issue without redoing the report? I can include the .rdl file if that would help.
Thanks!
I've seen something similar when coloring fonts. The pdf export didn't pick up all the formatting. Check to make sure that your visibility and color settings for the fields in question are what you expect. Try setting those all to default to see if that fixes the issue.
I have Windows Forms VB.NET application developed under VS2005. I am using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005. The reports has some Arabic and Hebrew text in it. My problem is that although text appears correct in the viewer at run time, when exported to any format including PDF the text appears reversed. The letters appear correctly but the arrangement of the letters in words is reversed and accordingly the word appear incorrectly.
Is there a way to fix this.
Thanks
The problem was fixed by selecting text object paragraph right-to-left property.
I have an SSRS report with two subreports that had been working fine. Recently I added some additional table sections to the report and I started seeing an issue when the report was displayed in the interactive viewer. The data is fine but the formatting on the last two table sections does not appear in the viewer.
The formatting actually stops working half way through the next to last report. However, when I print the report (or export to a PDF), all of the formatting is there and the report prints fine.
I have tried splitting the report into more subreports, running with different data and it still does not display correctly in the interactive viewer. The report and subreports do have a lot of formatting and table sections and I am wondering if the RDL files are too big to store in memory or if they even do get stored in memory.
The RDL file sizes are 61 kB for the main report and 2612 kB and 2608 kB respectively for the subreports. Is there a size limitation on the RDL files? Any ideas?
I have found a work around for my problem. If I render my report directly to a PDF, then the report will not display in the interactive viewer, but only as a PDF which displays correctly. This is done by adding "&rs:Format=PDF" to my URL when I call it from my C# program that allows the user to input the parameters. Then the user can print the report and never see the missing formatting in the interactive viewer. This works for my, however, I would still like to know if there is another answer that allows it to view correctly in the interactive viewer or if I have surpassed some memory limitations.
If you split the report into its component parts does it display ok? If as you say you have recently added some new sections/Sub reports to it if you remove them does it look ok again.
You have probably got some strange overlapping happening, in the report designer when the report complies check the warning tag to see if it gives you any clues