PDF Export / Bold Text / Underline text decoration

I'm having a problem when I have a text item in a table - the text is bold
and underlined; preview/print preview looks fine; but when I export the
report to PDF, the underline extends beyond the text to the right. If the
text is normal weight, the underline is fine. Is this a known issue? (maybe
fixed w/ RS SP2' - I looked at the bug list and saw some PDF fixes, but not
for this specific problem).
ThanksSome more information on this problem:
Any font specified as bold, bolder, extra-bold, etc. with the text
decoration set to Underline ... looks fine in designer / web preview whether
in a table or by itself in a textbox - but when exported to PDF, the bold
disappears (underline stays, though - but even this is a problem - the
underline extends to the right beyond the text) - maybe if the bold was
really bold, it would be the correct width for the text.
For example:
--
Instead of
For example:
--
I suspect this is a bug w/ the PDF export. Any ideas on possible workarounds?
TIA
"JKirst" wrote:
> I'm having a problem when I have a text item in a table - the text is bold
> and underlined; preview/print preview looks fine; but when I export the
> report to PDF, the underline extends beyond the text to the right. If the
> text is normal weight, the underline is fine. Is this a known issue? (maybe
> fixed w/ RS SP2' - I looked at the bug list and saw some PDF fixes, but not
> for this specific problem).
> Thanks
>|||JKirst,
I had a similar issue with text decoration in the export to PDF, but in my
case the underline disappeared altogether. Through an incident call with MS,
they confirmed there is a bug related to the calculation of the text
decoration and do not have a scheduled fix.
I did discover a work around in my case. It appears that if you have a text
box (whether in a table or just stand alone) that has its CanGrow property
set to true, but the height defined smaller than the defined font size and
text decorations, the text decorations may not render or render improperly if
the data text box does not wrap to 2 or more lines. To fix this, simply
define your textbox's starting height to be greater than the font size with
all potential text decorations applied.
"JKirst" wrote:
> Some more information on this problem:
> Any font specified as bold, bolder, extra-bold, etc. with the text
> decoration set to Underline ... looks fine in designer / web preview whether
> in a table or by itself in a textbox - but when exported to PDF, the bold
> disappears (underline stays, though - but even this is a problem - the
> underline extends to the right beyond the text) - maybe if the bold was
> really bold, it would be the correct width for the text.
> For example:
> --
> Instead of
> For example:
> --
> I suspect this is a bug w/ the PDF export. Any ideas on possible workarounds?
> TIA
> "JKirst" wrote:
> > I'm having a problem when I have a text item in a table - the text is bold
> > and underlined; preview/print preview looks fine; but when I export the
> > report to PDF, the underline extends beyond the text to the right. If the
> > text is normal weight, the underline is fine. Is this a known issue? (maybe
> > fixed w/ RS SP2' - I looked at the bug list and saw some PDF fixes, but not
> > for this specific problem).
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >