Black image when in Print Layout Mode

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Black image when in Print Layout Mode

Ken Champion

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February 27, 2007 at 9:20 am

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I have a freaky problem that just surfaced today. Within Visual Studio report designer, if I click the "Print Layout" button while in "Preview" mode, a totally black page is displayed. The only exception is my company logo which is embedded in the report. I removed the logo and retried, but the black page was still there, only the logo was gone.
If I print to the printer, everything is fine.
Has anyone ever seen this?
Unfortunately, I have changed some

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Ian Gibson-270409 SSC Enthusiast Points: 133 More actions · Answer 1

I've just come across this problem, too. It seems to happen when you have textboxes with a transparent background colour. If you assign a background colour, they magically appear in print layout...

Ian Gibson-270409 SSC Enthusiast Points: 133 More actions · Answer 2

I've just realised that if you assign a background colour to the Body section not the textboxes, it fixes the problem totally.

Ken Champion SSC Enthusiast Points: 107 More actions · Answer 3

Thanks, setting the background to white worked. However the margin is still black when in Print Layout mode. Something changed on my system because the reports that show the problem have not changed in a while. I upgraded to SQL Server SP2 on my machine. Could that have caused the problem?

SueB SSCommitted Points: 1668 More actions · Answer 4

This is most definitely a sp2 issue. I have reports I have done recently and they work fine on sp1 but show the black background on sp2. It seems like the margins were also changed after sp2. I wonder what changed.

Sue