Reporting services print pdf

Although the conditions are met, there is one circumstance under which fonts are not embedded in the PDF file. If the fonts used are the ones in the PDF specification that are commonly known as standard type 1 fonts or the base fourteen fonts, then fonts are not embedded for ANSI content. When a font is embedded in the PDF file, the computer that is used to view the report the client computer does not need to have the font installed for the report to display correctly.

When a font is not embedded in the PDF file, the client computer must have the correct font installed for the report to display correctly. If the font is not installed on the client computer, the PDF file displays a question mark character?

Differences in PDF output occur most often when a font that does not support non-Latin characters is used in a report and then non-Latin characters are added to the report. You should test the PDF rendering output on both the report server and the client computers to verify that the report renders correctly. Do not rely on viewing the report in Preview or exporting to HTML because the report will look correct due to automatic font substitution performed by the graphical design interface or by Microsoft Internet Explorer, respectively.

If there are Unicode Glyphs missing on the server, you may see characters replaced with a question mark? The fonts that are embedded in the PDF file are included in the Fonts property that is saved with the file, as metadata.

Some interactive elements are supported in PDF. The following is a description of specific behaviors. Dynamic show and hide elements are not supported in PDF.

The PDF document is rendered to match the current state of any items in the report. Email Address:. Sign me up! Home About Me. I always get asked about printing in Reporting Services. The 2 issues are always. Lets talk about the blank pages first. Sometimes a report author has a table or matrix that is short enough , but still gets the extra blank page. What you need to do is remove all the extra space at the right of the report.

Which brings me to the Landscape Printing option. The normal settings are 21cm for Page Width and Swop these around and you should get a Landscape Report. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Often in our applications there is a need to print out some data.

It seems in this day and age the need to print should completely go away, but sadly, the requirement keeps coming up. This happened recently on an application I was working on. This article describes the solution I decided to use. When you need to print data on paper, one of the things to be concerned about is that it will print correctly on any printer that it might print on. Putting printed reports into PDF format is a good solution to this issue.

With the PDF format, what you see is almost always what will print out. This format allows you to easily export to PDF for printing. The only caveat is I am not calling a Reporting Services Server.

I am creating the PDF directly in the.