I have a RDLC report and I am displaying it on the Report Viewer Control in my front end application. I get the report perfectly and theres no problem in it.
But the problem arises when I try to export the report to a PDF (using available option - basically the inbuilt option).
I get the report in 3 pages whereas my client wants it to be in a single page. I am not able to figure out the reason for it as in my report viewer I see only one page but in a PDF there are 3 pages. I have only four columns with no data, still they are breaking up into multiple pages. 2 columns on 1st page 2 on second page. Not real sure what happened to the 3rd page. Somebody recommended changing the paper size of the default printer but I didn't think is was worth trying.
Can something be done abt it so that I can control the size of the report???
This can be a real PITA but there are several things you can do to get you there in BIDS.
To see what it will look like as a pdf use the "Print Layout" button on the preview mode toolbar.
Goto the report properties and set the orientation and paper size as you need them.
Remember the margins in the report properties to make your report display area smaller. I generally set these smaller than the defaults.
Go back to you report items and make sure they are smaller than (pagesize - margins)
This should help.
you can try setting InteractiveHeight=0 , I know that at least works for the MHTML output, not sure about PDF, but it might lead you in the right direction
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I have created an SSRS Matrix report which shows 3 pages in output but when i export the report as a PDF, it shows 6 pages. One page is blank, although i selected the option ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace as True but still it is giving me a blank page as well the output pages are more than what is being shown in preview. I am using VS2013, kindly suggest.
As some comments have already suggested you will need to do a bit of trial and error with your page layout, page size and report contents to ensure that there is no white space pushing onto other pages.
The easiest way I have found to do this is to use the Print Layout option when previewing the report in Report Builder (In the middle of the Ribbon when viewing the report preview), which previews the report as it would be exported to actual pages. If it is still not obvious as to why the blank pages are there, you can set different background colours to your report items and report itself to see which colours show on the 'blank' pages. This will show you whether it is a report item or the report page layout that needs to be adjusted.
Your tables are running over more than likely.
Click ruler button in toolbar and make sure width of tables + margins is less than 11 if landscape and 8.5 if potrait.
Also if you right click outside of the report and select properties You can check your margins. I like to use between 0 and .5.
I have couple of SSRS reports deployed to test server.
The report layout/formatting looks OKAY on the screen but when I export to PDF and view in PDF, everything is messed up.
For example, I see two columns shown in separate page. Even one of the tablix region comes up separately in another page.
So totally one page on-screen display comes to PDF in about 3 to 4 pages.
Also the 2nd and 3rd pages are always blank.
Did I mess up the report defination or any width/height parameters? The report is set to print in landscape and is in inches.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
You probably need to increase the page width, from the Report menu. This will keep all your columns on a single page. As for blank pages when report is exported to PDF, you will have to squeeze out all white space while designing the report. The size of the canvas should not be more than what is just needed. If you have groups on your report and there are page breaks separating each group, setting the ConsumeContainerWhiteSpace property of the Report to true will ensure there are no blank pages at the end.
I'm working on my first significant Sql Reporting Services project and am having problems with paging. Most of the reports are already working.
What is happening is that I"m getting different numbers and locations of page breaks between Web Reportviewer, PDF and Word documents. The word is the closest, but none of the three are really correct.
I've looked for the for the obvious like extra paging and making sure the report does not go outside of the left or right margins. My problem is that I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting reports that pages that do not break in the correct location.
Does anyone have a suggestion where to start?
I'm using VS2008, SQL2008 DE on Vista Dev box.
This isn't really a problem - the different renderers are rendering the report appropriately for their output. The web viewer is optimised for screen-based reading and generally allows more content per page than the PDF viewer does as the PDF viewer is constrained by the paper size that it formats to. Thus you get more pages when rendering for PDF than web; however, the content of the report is exactly the same.
The best illustration of this is the Excel renderer - the Excel renderer renders the entire report onto a single worksheet in most cases (for reports with grouping and page breaks set on the group footer it will render each group on its own worksheet). You wouldn't want the Excel renderer to artificially create worksheets to try to paginate your report. It does the appropriate thing which is to include all the data in one big worksheet even though that may be logically thought of as one big "page".
The web renderer page length is determined by the InteractiveHeight attribute of the report (in the InteractiveSize property in the Properties pane for the report) but the interactive height is an approximation rather than a fixed page break setting and your page breaks may still not conform to the PDF version even though the InteractiveHeight is set to the same length as your target page length.
I created a report in reporting services 2005 with a report page size of 14in x 8.5in. The report looks fine in the reports manager and also in the report viewer. The issue is when I export the report to PDF, the page size in Adobe states 14 x 8.5 in but when you hit the print button, it selects Letter size (8.5 x 11) instead of choosing Legal size (8.5 x 14).
If you then click on 'Choose Paper Source by PDF page size' or change the paper source to legal, the report prints out exactly the way I wanted it.
Does anyone have a solution to this? Thanks in advance
I remeber we had a similar problem a few months ago with Reporting Services 2008 (not 2005).
I think the solution was to "force" the values of Width and Heigth for the desired amount, regardless of the selected item in "Paper size" dropdown box (in Report Properties -> Page Setup)
In our case, we wanted to print in A4, so we set width = 21.59cm and height = 27,94cm, even if selected paper size remains as "Letter".
Just i choosed the Report Properties -> Page Setup --> Paper Size is A4 , then it was get working fine for A4
- GAM SKJai (L&T ECC)
I've had this problem too, and I've never found a satisfactory solution. SSRS doesn't offer much control over print settings in export formats (like fit-to-one-page-across in Excel).
One work-around would be to roll your own interface, intercept the PDF file, and update the print settings before serving it up to the user. Could be a lot of work, and how would you know the intended page size? You could always parse the RDL file for the page size settings, and that would be a correct solution, but damn if that's not a lot of extra work.
EDIT: check the page size under page setup, as pv2008 suggested.
Report Properties --> Interactive Size set it to whatever you want and it stays, even after closing and reopening the report. I exported pdf and it retains the size. You can check by right clicking on the pdf and go tot properties.
I have a user sign off report where it shows a users rights/access to the system which all fits nicely onto one page when I hit preview. However when I then go to print layout it shows me two pages with the second page only containg the footer.
Any ideas please?
Are you sure the page size matches the paper size?
If so, have you tried setting the page footer's PrintOnLastPage property to false? Then again, if you really need that footer to be there (seeing that there's only one page), you might have to try fiddling with the margins to get it to fit within the first page.
The report size at design time, plus the margins must be less than the paper size. Sometimes you can have a report that is too wide that is essentially generating a blank page "to the right" rather than underneath the first page.
Yes I have scrunched it all up so that it is WELL within the page size and I have tried all combinations of Footers (and headers).
It is a slightly wierd report in that it has fields that need to grow to show all the information and a small table too, but even at full growth the data looks like it fits on one page (in preview in Visual Studio) but as soon as it goes to print preview and printing it reverts to two pages.
Make sure you do not have extra area to the right of the last field of the report.
Are you sure you've adjusted the report's display size in the property sheet, too?
Hope this helps,
Bill