That was a long shot, but i like to try low hanging fruit first. Is there anything in the reporting services logs?

in the project properties there's a setting called 'Target Server Version" what is it set too?

I notice you have an image in your header. I've had this problem and it was my employer's logo. my image container was to small for the image....

I sometimes have problems with reports doing this. Have you tried it in another browser?

Problems like this are pain to troubleshoot. If it works in a different browser...

what if you did a REPLACE on the text when you pull it into your report?

REPLACE(ColumnName,CHAR(0XAD),'X')

if you query that table and look for that entry with the bad character, what does it look like in SSMS? I'm wondering if it's a accented letter, french...

It's been awhile since I've seen this, but if I remember correctly, the issue I had was it was a long running report that was timing out while rendering and...

I haven't tried this, but it might work...

What about using the actions on a text box to open a URL to the PDF?

a coworker has that, I've sat at his desk and the amount of real estate is overwhelming.

I'm pretty sure(though not a tax expert by any ANY means) that federal and provincial taxes are both applied to the same amount.

So more like

(GST * amount)...

I love having three monitors but in a pinch i can use one(like I do at home). I find the tool I miss the most and use all the...

Sorry DB_NAME(). My brain said one thing my fingers typed another.

Could you use the DATABASE_NAME() function and the Database_id column from the sys.database_mirroring table to get the name?

One of our vendors passes all their parameters as XML. I'd have to look at exactly how they do it, but if I remember correctly they build the XML...

I ran into the same problem as well with no success. What I ended up doing was messy.

I ended up using two tables one hidden one visible...