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Exporting as pdf reverts to Letter size instead of Legal

  • November 17, 2017 at 9:53 am

    #329613

    In Reporting Services, I have a report *.rdl with Report Properties Paper size of Legal.
    When I run it then print, it keeps the Legal Paper size.
    However when it's exported to pdf, it reverts back to Letter and in the process, shrinks it down to one page.
    This also occurs when exporting the report by Subscription. Running the same report by Subscription either by Email or Windows File Share where the Format is PDF; it does not keep the Legal paper size.
    Is this normal behavior for exporting as a pdf or am I missing a configuration somewhere. I'm using SSRS version 11.0.3128.0
    Thanks

    Jim Patt

  • November 17, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    #1968632

    jpatt07 - Friday, November 17, 2017 9:53 AM

    In Reporting Services, I have a report *.rdl with Report Properties Paper size of Legal.
    When I run it then print, it keeps the Legal Paper size.
    However when it's exported to pdf, it reverts back to Letter and in the process, shrinks it down to one page.
    This also occurs when exporting the report by Subscription. Running the same report by Subscription either by Email or Windows File Share where the Format is PDF; it does not keep the Legal paper size.
    Is this normal behavior for exporting as a pdf or am I missing a configuration somewhere. I'm using SSRS version 11.0.3128.0
    Thanks

    Not certain but my first though would be that the difference between Hard Page-Break Renderers (PDF) and Soft Page-Break Renderers (HTML) would explain why this happens.
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    Question, what happens if you use "print to pdf"?

  • November 18, 2017 at 8:58 am

    #1968637

    I haven't tried print to pdf but do know when exporting as either Excel or Word, paper size remains Legal.

    Jim Patt

  • November 18, 2017 at 9:12 am

    #1968639

    jpatt07 - Saturday, November 18, 2017 8:58 AM

    I haven't tried print to pdf but do know when exporting as either Excel or Word, paper size remains Legal.

    The PDF rendering differs from the soft rendering in SSRS, Excel, Word and HTML are using the soft rendering, so I thought that might explain it. If you select any of the latter formats, the rendering is not left to SSRS but the printer (virtual) device which may handle this better.
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  • November 18, 2017 at 9:34 am

    #1968641

    Just found this, might help explain the issue
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