Screen output vs. print output, SSRS 2000

Hi,
I'm building a report for a client (in SSRS 2000), where I am
experiencing the fact that the output on the screen (ie, what is
rendered by Report Manager) is very different from the print output (or
export output, for that matter).
I am using a list, with a couple of tables (with fixed size) embedded
in it. While shown on screen, the page breaks are (as far as I can
tell) randomly inserted, no matter what I set as properties for Page
Break, Keep Together, etc. The output while exporting to (for example)
PDF is great, and exactly as I want it.
Has anyone experienced a similar problem? If so, have you solved it,
and how?
Thanks,
Jeroen Buisman
InfoReports Business Intelligence B.V.I have read in training material that the output to the screen (HTML) does
not have fixed page bounderies but goes until it hits the end of a group set
for a page break at the end of the group. HTML is not a "page oriented"
output format, while PDF is. This has been my experience.
<jeroen.buisman@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I'm building a report for a client (in SSRS 2000), where I am
> experiencing the fact that the output on the screen (ie, what is
> rendered by Report Manager) is very different from the print output (or
> export output, for that matter).
> I am using a list, with a couple of tables (with fixed size) embedded
> in it. While shown on screen, the page breaks are (as far as I can
> tell) randomly inserted, no matter what I set as properties for Page
> Break, Keep Together, etc. The output while exporting to (for example)
> PDF is great, and exactly as I want it.
> Has anyone experienced a similar problem? If so, have you solved it,
> and how?
> Thanks,
> Jeroen Buisman
> InfoReports Business Intelligence B.V.
>|||Hi,
if you dont mention the margin propert for the report layout then this
problem will come up for the HTML print and not for PDF. so you have to
mention the margin hight,width,top,left in the rdl for the html activex
control to get that property otherwise it will get the default property which
makes the report ugly. You can fix temp by changing the margin property to
low in HTML print active control while viewing.
Bava
"jeroen.buisman@.gmail.com" wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm building a report for a client (in SSRS 2000), where I am
> experiencing the fact that the output on the screen (ie, what is
> rendered by Report Manager) is very different from the print output (or
> export output, for that matter).
> I am using a list, with a couple of tables (with fixed size) embedded
> in it. While shown on screen, the page breaks are (as far as I can
> tell) randomly inserted, no matter what I set as properties for Page
> Break, Keep Together, etc. The output while exporting to (for example)
> PDF is great, and exactly as I want it.
> Has anyone experienced a similar problem? If so, have you solved it,
> and how?
> Thanks,
> Jeroen Buisman
> InfoReports Business Intelligence B.V.
>|||Bava
can you explain this more in detail
Thx|||True, but the page breaks are occurring erraticaly. If it were so that
the HTML page break would only occur after the first group which has
the "Page Break at End" (or something like that) set, the break would
occur on exactly the same spot, right? So my guess is that that's not
the case. Will check it though, when I visit my client again tomorrow.
Thx,
Jeroen|||Hi Bava,
You mean that for the Report object, I should set explicit margins? If
so, that's something I always do with my reports. If that's not wat you
mean: could you please clarify what you mean with "changing the margin
property to low in HTML print active control"?
Thx,
Jeroen|||Hi,
The report rdl has the element like
<Report>
<RightMargin>0.2in</RightMargin>
<LeftMargin>0.2in</LeftMargin>
<TopMargin>0.2in</TopMargin>
</Report>
you have to set explicit for the report otherwise it will take the default
of .5in i think.
The default of 0.5in will not be good for some reports in HTML print control
that is avilable in report manager near the Export link.
You can see the value of the report margin set during the print control
preview mode. You can adjust the margin in this print control preview mode
but it will not be saved to the report or in the setting.
Bava
"Jeroen Buisman" wrote:
> Hi Bava,
> You mean that for the Report object, I should set explicit margins? If
> so, that's something I always do with my reports. If that's not wat you
> mean: could you please clarify what you mean with "changing the margin
> property to low in HTML print active control"?
> Thx,
> Jeroen
>|||Ow ok... however, the problem I'm having is not with printing, in fact,
printing is what goes well. The rendering on screen doesn't work as it
should.