I am working presently on the adf side and I am stuck with some issues.
I have a page where I have to display the pdf files. The pdf files are in another site and the links are present in a column of the database.But when I try to access those links they are downloading rather than displaying. I need to display those pdf files in my inline frame rather than downloading.
I heard many suggestions like write a bean and put the file in session and get display them in page .But I am not clear.
So please help me on this.
I have a check box at the end and the checkbox should be enabled in my page only when the displayed pdf scrolled to end.
Please help me solving those issues.
When you create a link to a PDF there is only so much you can do to make it display in the browser. The most important thing you must do on the server that delivers the PDF is to make sure it is presented with the correct MIME-type and without a content-disposition header value of attachment.
After that, it's up to the browser to either show it in a browser tab or to download the file. I know Chrome will show the PDF in the browser when it's linked to, not sure if it also does that when it's linked in an iframe.
I don't think there's a reliable way to make it work the way you want, simply because it's very browser dependent.
I have created a report using Birt 3.7.2 The report behaves exactly how I want when using the web viewer and even when exporting to PDF from the web viewer. However When running the report direct to PDF all pages always show as page 1, causing conditional formatting to break.
Why would the page numbers work correctly to the viewer but not direct to PDF. Is there a workaround. The report is called from our application and attached to an email. As such we do need to be able to run it directly to PDF.
The page numbers are on the report body rather than in the Master Page.
I did see this was a bug in 2.6.1 but it was resolved in 2.6.2.
We are having an issue while generating a huge PDF Report. We are using SSRS 2008 and a particular report generates more than 1000 pages. If I export to PDF format, the data is populated upto page no. 465 and rest of the pages till 1000 are totally blank. I have Adobe Reader 9.0 installed on my machine and I thought there should be some issue with the reader itself. I upgraded to Adobe Reader 10 but experiencing same issue. Everytime I generate the report and export to PDF (using the report viewer webcontrol), the pages become blank after 465. There is absolutely no problem with the data (the stored procedure which I am using to load customers) and I have verified in the backend. We had this issue last month and somehow it got fixed automagically. Now again we have the same issue. Any help please?
Apparently there was nothing wrong with SSRS or Adobe reader or anything related to caching. Some of the sections in each page were pushed to next page due to increase in height of an image. When I readjusted the height of the embedded image control, everything went fine.
I’m having an issue with PDF output being rendered in Adobe Reader’s ‘in browser’ feature from an ASP Classic site.
I have a form with a handful of inputs that trundles off and makes a PDF report. The report renders correctly (all input values accounted for) when saved as a file, but gives a blank screen when displaying in Reader v7.0, and goes straight to a no-input-values report in v8.1.2.
Pressing ‘refresh’ in the browser from here will also display a report indicative of none of the HTML form inputs being carried forward.
Are there any basic mechanics of the
HTML form post-back that I may have
left out?
*The one thing that puzzles m*e is that un-checking the ‘Display in-browser’ option in Adobe Reader and not restarting the browser gives the correct report in both versions.
The other possible issue is something to do with the browser’s ‘Trusted sites’ policy. The domain had been added to the trusted list, and:
The HTML input form shows as a trusted site in the status bar
The in-browser PDF screen displays at ‘Unknown Zone’
To clarify:
If the Reader is uninstalled, the downloaded file is correct
If Reader is installed, and set to not display in browser, the output is correct
If set to display in-browser with Adobe Reader, it
v7.0 – Displays a blank screen. ‘Refresh’ goes to a no-input-value PDF report
v8.1.2 – Displays the no-input-value report
Un-checking the ‘Display in-browser’ option in Adobe Reader and not restarting the browser gives the correct report in both versions
There is a working old production environment, which is capable of displaying the PDF file correctly in-browser with Reader v7.0 on the same machines we’re testing with. The issue described occurs with the same code being set up in a new environment with tighter security control.
The environment also uses older technology, which won’t be upgraded. This includes:
The site is ASP Classic
The code is outputting PDF v1.3
Internet Explorer 6. Yes. 6.
Any ideas on why the report isn't always carrying forward the HTML input?
Any help appreciated,
Thanks.
The ASP page that generates the PDF is not getting the values from the form. That is why it is creating a PDF form with empty values. Ensure that the HTML form directly posts to the ASP script generating the PDF. There should not be any response.transfer or response.redirect or 404 redirection that goes to the PDF-generating ASP script.
Ah, dang.
So it turns out IIS had GZIP compression enabled, and the client has an IE6-only rollout. There's much written about IE6's GZIP incompatibility, and if you're looking to conditionally allow it in IIS, there are some solutions.
The white screen is result of it being an ASP page that posts back, and changes its 'content-type' in the HTTP header (to 'application/pdf') - where IIS decides it should compress it, and fails in IE6.
Adobe Reader 8 does a 2nd request, losing the postback values.
I created a simple report and uploaded it to my report server. It looks correct on the report server, but when I set up an email subscription, the report is much narrower than it is supposed to be.
Here is what the report looks like in the designer. It looks similar when I view it on the report server: [http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4893/designqj3.png]
Here is what the email looks like: [http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/9297/emailmy8.png]
Does anyone know why this is happening?
This issue is fixed in SQL Server 2005 SP3 (it is part of cumulitive update package build 3161)
Problem issue described below.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935399
Basically Full Outlook 2007 Client Uses MS Word HTML Rendering Engine (Which Makes Web Archive Report Looked Jacked Up).
NOTE: Web Outlook 2007 Client Uses IE HTML Rendering Engine (Which makes Web Archive Report Look Okay).
We have installed the patch on DB housing Reporting Services and it does fix the issue. Emails look all nice and fancy now.
I notice that the screenshots show Outlook 2007. Perhaps you're not aware that Microsoft somewhat hobbled the HTML capabilities of Outlook in 2007, and now it uses the Word HTML engine, and not the more advanced Internet Explorer one? Might this explain the lacklustre appearance?
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/10/microsoft-breaks-html-email-rendering-in-outlook/
I got around this problem by doing the
following:
Add a Page Header to the report
Add a line to the page header. Set the width of the line to the
desired page width.
Set the line colour to white (eg to hide the line)
Hope this helps someone else,
Following on from girlC0d3r's solution, images aren't always guaranteed to be shown in an email.
A better solution to widening the report to prevent the content from wrapping is to have a long unbroken string of characters with no whitespace.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
By giving the text the same color as the background of the email (e.g. white) they'll widen the report and be invisible to the user.
I don't see anything but my first guess is that the fonts are vastly different. The designer has one font and the email is a flat, no-frills kind of thing with a simple font. Without concrete examples, this is just a guess.
I don't think it's a font thing, because the text is being wrapped a lot, and it looks about the same size.
The images show in my preview, but not in the final post. So, here are links to them.
Report in the designer: [http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4893/designqj3.png]
Email result: [http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/9297/emailmy8.png]
What report output format did you specify for the scheduled job? It seems to me you used HTML, which will autoscale depending on the output browser (HTML adapts).
If having the same layout is important then use PDF as the output format. Then, if the user wants to print the report you know exactly what it will look like and that it will fit nicely on the page.
Can you try a different format? pdf or xls maybe. In my experience web archive looks goofy. Don't know why.
Yeah, I'm using HTML. I would prefer to stick with that, because the users can just read it in their mail clients. PDF or XLS would require them to open an attachment.
I know that the HTML resizes itself to fit the browser, and that's a good thing. The problem I would like to fix is the wasted space - in the email client, the HTML shrinks too much.
I got around this problem by doing the following:
Add a Page Header to the report
Add a line to the page header. Set the width of the line to the desired page width.
Set the line colour to white (eg to hide the line)
Hope this helps someone else,
girlC0d3r is along the right lines (no pun intended), but the line will likely be shrunk along with the rest of the HTML in the email. A workaround I used yesterday was to create an image 1px high by 600px wide (or whatever), the same color as the background, and bring it into the report as an embedded image. Place it above or below the body of your report. This should force the intended width in the final email. I used this technique successfully in a report yesterday.
I just ran into this issue myself, exactly as portrayed in the OP's screenshots. The reports were beautifully rendered in nearly every format except for Web Archive. My trouble was the use of a rectangle containing each matrix that did not span the width of the report. Upon stretching it out through the remaining white space, the condensing behavior ceased. Hope that helps someone who doesn't have quick access to an SP upgrade!
Where it is not an issue of running on old software that needs a patch...
The reason is the columns are different sizes is because the MHTML Device Information Settings, 'OutlookCompat' is set to true
When creating an email subscription with MHTML format and open the report in Outlook, A forum post by Microsoft employee Fanny Liu says
change the OutlookCompat configuration setting for the MHTML Rendering extension in rsreportserver.config. Set the value to: False.
As I was researching it appeared that this would impact more than just column size. In my instance it was not that big of deal so I decided to leave well enough alone. It is correct in PDF and web, the email I send includes a link back to the report, if the client wants a pretty report they are going to want it in PDF, the email format is not expected to be printable.
Encountered the same issue and this worked for me.
Go to --> Properties --> Report
Set InteractiveSize Width to 4.9in
Set Margins to 0 for Left, Right, Top, and Bottom
Set pageSize to Width to 4.9in