Question : Print issues in Reporting Services

Hi,

I am working in Reporting Services SSRS 2005. The question is how do i print my reports without getting
broken off columns. My page size is 11in as width and 8.5 as Height

Issue 1.
When i hit print button directly off the report it 8-9 columns comes on a single page where as rest ofthem breaks off to different page. Is there a way to resize columsn to fit to a single page?

Issue 2
Export to excel is really a cool feature but again it doesn't resizes the page which is okay to me as the functionality export to excel is just to export. Is there a work around?

Issue 3
Export as PDF just doesn't look right. All the columns are broken down and for some reason RS doesn't keep its header to different pages

Please help!!!

Answer : Print issues in Reporting Services

If it's a wide report, make sure the Report objects width and height properties are set the right way round, i.e. for Landscape - in North America, that would be 11in wide and 8.5in high.

Also look for the Margin property whatever the left and right margins are, add them together and if you take this value away from the report width, that is the maximum width you can possibly without it going across several pages.

Look at the Width property of the Body object - if it's greater than Report Width - margins then it will page break (even if there is nothing to print there - a common mistake!

So if your report width is 11in, and margins are 0.25in each, your maximum width to fit on one page is 10.5in - you have to make your columns fit into that - there is no other way.

Try reducing the the padding in your cells (the default is 2,2,2,2 - I use 1,1,0,0). Use smaller fonts. There is no "fit to page" option in RS.

The output you get from the "Preview" tab in BIDS/VS is not the same as the deployed report - don't go by that, deploy it and print it there to be sure.

Cheers
Chris