I am trying to design a Telerik report and have text print all the way to the edge of the report. I have set all margins to 0" and in print preview I see everything I want on the paper but when I actually print the document, the right and left edges of the report are cut off. According to the Telerik Document if I see text on the screen I should expect to see that text on paper but that is clearly not happening.
Each printer has hardware margins which cannot be avoided. You could experiment with another program such as word/excel - the result would be the same.
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I understand that I can never exceed the width of a report body, but I have more report items than a (Design View) page can hold and I don't know what to do.
To clarify, what is currently on the Design View page correctly becomes a longer display view, and becomes multiple printed pages. Just what I want.
The problem is that I've run out of vertical design canvas and I don't know how to fix that.
Now that we've identified the PBI-Desktop tag was erroneous, the problem domain is SSRS Report Builder/PBI Paginated Report Builder doesn't give you enough space to craft your report.
The right but wrong answer is to go into the Property menu of the Body and there you can change the Size of the report.
Here you can see me manually increasing the size of the report body but it's easier/more precise to work with the property window.
Why it's the wrong answer -> You're designing a paginated report - one designed to be pica perfect on your page. Now we're stuffing a 21.875 inch body of a report into an 8x11 page piece of paper. Viewing of it might be ok but when someone clicks print, what happens? Is it going to squish all of that into a single page? Will Page 1 of the report really span N pages? It's been too long since I've worked with SSRS to that level of precision and I really don't remember but do test early if printing is a crucial aspect of the report delivery.
Outdated PBI Desktop/Service answer in case someone else needs it
In Power BI Desktop, click in the background and under Visualizations go to the Format tab. Change the default page size to custom and I could create a 99999 pixel tall report but I doubt that's advisable
My company utilizes a software system that can generate reports and export them to a variety of formats. One of the formats is HTML and it does indeed look nice and keep the fidelity of the reports. However, when I go to print the report some of the elements on the page don't get printed. They are mostly stylistic things like lines that act as borders between areas. They are there when viewed in Chrome or Firefox, but immediately disappear when you go to print.
Everything is made with inline css styling such as:
<div style="page-break-inside:avoid;page-break-after:always;">
<span style="position:absolute;top:0.09388888in;left:0.7161965in;width:6.658803in;height:0.2861111in;font-family:Arial;font-size:14pt;color:Black;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:top;background-color:#FFFFFF;"><nobr>Report</nobr></span>
Here is a fiddle of the report so you can see what I'm talking about:
https://jsfiddle.net/otictac1/60pahz8e/
The yellow bar doesn't print nor do the borders that surround the table looking thing on the right.
Any thoughts on what might be causing that?
We have been trying to export SSRS reports into pdfs and trying to print them.
The pdf on printing prints smaller sizes of the fonts.
The digital version looks right. We have used custom sizes on some of the reports and some use A4.
But this problem occurs on both. Are there any compatibility issues that we need to verify or any config changes. Pls suggest.
Any ideas would be very helpful.
Check your margins and report width.
The report Body width + the margins must be equal to or less than the Paper Size width.
You may be going over the margins for your printer and your PDF reader is scaling it to fit on a page.
You can check by looking at the PRINT options and making sure that it doesn't Shrink Oversized pages or Fit to page. Mine has an Actual Size setting.
Tried this. But we still do have issues printing some of the reports. Right now we are tweaking the margins and the fonts to make sure each report prints fine.
We wanted to know if there is any other way to achieve this.
I currently have a Matrix within an SSRS report. Usually, the matrix will fix to a standard page in portrait mode, however there are cases where the length of the columns will exceed a page. Is there a way to have SSRS render the report to a PDF where this Matrix would auto-size and shrink all of it's contents, ie: font, column widths to fit within a page? I don't want to shrink all objects in the SSRS report to fix the page, just the width of the Matrix.
If you were dealing with height, I would say that that's not a tablix configuration. The tablix would be only expanding because of the columns. And the columns would be expanding because the textboxes that are inside them expand.
So, you would need to deal with it on each textbox by Right clicking the textbox inside the column and select "text box properties". On the general tab uncheck "allow height to increase".
Strangely there isn't an option to width. This link tells about the CanGrow and CanShrink properties but I wasn't able to make it work. Maybe if you want to give it a try.
-> Go to report tab
-> Select the Report Properties
-> Select Paper Size "Letter" and "Width & Height" as per standards ("8.5 * 11" or "11*8.5")
Despite the downvote, Nawaz has the correct answer
To fit it to a specific page, especially for pdf output, then you set the size to A4. I always have three templates for this purpose, screen, pdfland and pdfport. I resize my headers, footers, titles and corporate imagery for each of these templates. It's a pain, but you can incentivise your users to ditch the pdfs and the printing and the paper by creating decent dashboards for them so they have live data to hand. That's really the only decent way I've found of getting them out of old and poor habits
So either right click outside the body of the report and select Report properties, or select it from the properties window tab at the right of the screen, then set the size to either letter or A4. It's not ideal, but if you do not limit the report size in this manner any dynamic columns will render outside the pdf and create multiple pages that need to be stuck together later
edit: If you really need to resize in a hurry, you can open the report as code, and use the replace function to reduce the size, however it is often easier to reposition the tables by hand
I have an SSRS 2005 report, the report has two groups and one nested table inside of a group, the report is displayed correctly in VS as two pages, but when trying to export it to PDF I get 17 pages and the only correct pages I get are at the end of the PDF file.
Check the grid vs the Page Size.
If you Page Size is set to 8.5" x 11 and you have 1" margins and your Grid (The "white" part of the report) goes beyond the margins, you will get overflow on to other pages.
If you look at the picture below, you can see the grid goes just beyond the 7" mark. My interactive snf Page Sizes are set to 8.5 x 11. This exports fine. A good way to check is to switch to "Print Layout" mode. You can do this by clicking on the little icon that looks like a white piece of paper on a green background just to the right of the Printer Icon. When you view it this way, you get a pretty good idea of how it will be exported.
I have run into this problem before, generally a Table or Rectangle control will inadvertently push to the edge of the Grid and in turn increase the size of the Grid beyond your paper size and margins.
Yes, but it's been a (long) while since I worked with SSRS. I remember having adjusted rsreportserver.config
This link should help:
Customizing rendering extensions
The link is just the result of quick googling. Didn't read it through.
I had to adjust values for i.e. border width and so on, which are by default somehow a mess. And if that doesn't help, you have to adjust your report.