What is the best way to make the SSRS reporr fit in to PDF page.
Next time please indicate what version of SSRS you are working with...
If you are careful to design your canvas to certain constraints your should be fine. Typically the PDF is going to emulate a 8.5" by 11" piece of paper - considering margins you should keep the width of your report to less than 7" but I think 6.5" is best.
You can do this by selecting the report itself, the menu in BIDS (VS) should now have a report item which you can select to reveal Report Properties. In the report properties you can select the orientation as well as standard paper sizes and margins. Based on your paper size and your left and right margins you should be able to calculate the maximum width for the body of your report. Back in the report designer select the report body and look at the properties. The object drop down list should specifically say BODY, in this you want to ensure the size of your body (width) is not greater than the Report width minus the margins.
For PDF you have to change page settings while creating report check below steps for that :
if you have large data on page you should choose below option
->Right Click on report
->Click on Page Setup option
->Change page orientation Portrait to Landscape
->Click on OK
if you don't have large data on page you should reduce size of your table on report design page and change below setting:
->Right Click on report
->Click on Page Setup option
->Change page orientation Landscape to Portrait
->Click on OK
Now check PDF file.
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I'm using Visual Studio 2017 with VB.NET
I've prepared a rdlc report, with rectangles and textboxes (no tables, cause I don't need to show any dataset, but only a list of data resulting by an elaboration).
I simply need to print this report on a common A4 paper, so I've added a reportviewer correctly connetted with my rdlc report.
In the rdlc report design screen I correclty see my report, with rulers on the left and on the top, that correctly indicate the A4 measures: 21cm W x 29,7 H.
Also my rdlc report InteractiveSize and PageSize are set on 21cm x 29,7cm , with 1cm; 1cm; 1cm; 1cm in margins.
With this situation, I start the program, make the elaboration and view my report in reportviewer after the elaboration. In its layout view, my rdlc report is shown like "pressed" and miniaturized on the left, with the header of the rdlc report that is repeated along 3 pages. The first page contains both header and all textboxes with solid borders, small and pressed on the left of the reportviewer view, while page 2 and 3 have only the header, with the rest blank.
If I print this reportviewer view, I get on paper exactly what I see in the reportviewer layout view, while if I export it in a pdf, I get 3 pages, but this time they are not smaller and pressed on the left of the screen, instead they correclty fit my rdlc original settings, even if the header is repeated along 3 pages again (but not "smallerized" this time).
I'm forced to ask this question cause after a long search I haven't found any solution, despite the big amount of topics I've read where users ask similar problems with this reportviewer.
Really hope in some suggestion.
You can decrease the size of your RDLC report page, it will not add additional page in PDF and would correctly fit with your default settings.
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've built a report in Reporting Services and when we browse to the report in Internet Explorer we want to be able to export the report in PDF format. It works, but it was cutting off the columns to the right and displaying them on the next page (in PDF) because the page was too wide. I changed the orientation to landscape and it still cut off the columns on the right. Then I changed the page size to legal paper and it fits on one page, but we want the report on letter size paper. Is there a way to compress the report to fit on letter size landscape?
Here is how to get a report to fit on a letter page:
Click on the blank space outside of your report
Look at the properties and find interactive size. Set it to 11,8.5in. Set your Margins to 0.5in, 0.5in, 0.5in, 0.5in
Click on the body and select properties. Set the width to 10in and something less than 7.5 for the height.
I was having this issue too. I set my margins to zero, which allowed me to print on 1 pdf page instead of 2.
When you develop report from SpagoBI Studio
change setting of Master Page (next to Layout).
No need to change orientation but you need to
increase the width of report according to your number of columns and column with.
make sure it is greater than sum of all column's width (table width)
This will solve the issues
Good Afternoon,
My report's page size is 8.5" by 11" with .5in margins all around. When I preview the report in BIDS, it renders in portrait. A change to landscape in page setup fixes this.
However, when I export to PDF and view it in Acrobat, the last column of my report rolls to page 2. Instead of a 2 page report, I have a 4 page report with the last column on pages 2 and 4.
I've searched this site and others and could not find any fixes for this. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks much!
When in layout mode, what is the width of your report? If your page size is 8.5" with .5" margins all the way around, the maximum width of your report is 7.5".
I've run into the same type of issue before, and it turned out that the width of my report was just a smidge over 7.5".
Set the Interactive Size and Page Size properly for the report
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.