PDF Rendering bug

We are trying to publish a group of financial reports using SQL Server
Reporting Services. We have hit a snag when we try to render the reports in
PDF format. The leading spaces of each line are stripped in the output
file. For example:

Department 10.7240 - ICU

Expenses SubDepartment
-- -
1,200 100
454 150

Becomes:

Department 10.7240 - ICU

Expenses SubDepartment
-- -
1,200 100
454 150

Does anyone know a solution for this problem? By the way, we did upgrade to SP2.
That did not correct the problem.

This blog entry (actually the comments for the entry) discusses same. Long story short, the PDF extension strips leading spaces in this version of SSRS, and there is no workaround :(

http://blogs.msdn.com/bimusings/archive/2005/06/15/429607.aspx

It sounds like you are "artificially" adding these spaces to make things line up. Can you re-position the textboxes which show the values and/or use the alignment settings to make the same thing happen?

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Thanks for the information. Actually we are moving a fully formatted report from an old DEC Alpha system to .pdf files. Currently this is done manually. It is a process that involves cutting and pasting hundreds of pages of the original report into output for individual departments. The SSRS report consists of a single text box to hold the lines of the source report. That is why we have leading spaces.

We are able to do all the breakout of individual sections using SQL Server, but It looks like we will have to find another product to do the final conversion from text to .pdf. Actually, tiff files come out great, but they are huge and slow.

Thanks again for the good information.

Passing SELECTed rows to a calling SP

Hi!
I'm a new T-SQL developer and just hit a roadblock.
I have a scenario that goes like this: I have 2 stored procedures,
spInner and spOuter. spInner has a SELECT statement which would
normally be used by a class using MS Enterprise Library and that output
goes into a DataSet. However, I need to get the output of the SELECT
statement to go into spOuter and that's what I can't seem to figure
out.
I know I may be asked to use functions that return tables in replies to
this post, but I can't do that as some parts of my application have an
EXEC(string) for dynamic SQL, instead of spInner.
Any help appreciated.
Cheers,
N.I.T.I.N.For the results of spInner to be available to spOuter, there are a few
options. I have used temporary tables or persisted the data into a real
table to avoid recompiles and also have a record of the data. If you use the
latter option, you can use a guid column and each row with a guid obtained
from spOuter. This way you can easily pick up the rows you need.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com|||NiTiN (emailme.nitin@.gmail.com) writes:
> I'm a new T-SQL developer and just hit a roadblock.
> I have a scenario that goes like this: I have 2 stored procedures,
> spInner and spOuter. spInner has a SELECT statement which would
> normally be used by a class using MS Enterprise Library and that output
> goes into a DataSet. However, I need to get the output of the SELECT
> statement to go into spOuter and that's what I can't seem to figure
> out.
> I know I may be asked to use functions that return tables in replies to
> this post, but I can't do that as some parts of my application have an
> EXEC(string) for dynamic SQL, instead of spInner.
I have an article on my web site that discusses possible options. See
http://www.sommarskog.se/share_data.html.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...oads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodin...ions/books.mspx

Passing SELECTed rows to a calling SP

Hi!
I'm a new T-SQL developer and just hit a roadblock.
I have a scenario that goes like this: I have 2 stored procedures,
spInner and spOuter. spInner has a SELECT statement which would
normally be used by a class using MS Enterprise Library and that output
goes into a DataSet. However, I need to get the output of the SELECT
statement to go into spOuter and that's what I can't seem to figure
out.
I know I may be asked to use functions that return tables in replies to
this post, but I can't do that as some parts of my application have an
EXEC(string) for dynamic SQL, instead of spInner.
Any help appreciated.
Cheers,
N.I.T.I.N.For the results of spInner to be available to spOuter, there are a few
options. I have used temporary tables or persisted the data into a real
table to avoid recompiles and also have a record of the data. If you use the
latter option, you can use a guid column and each row with a guid obtained
from spOuter. This way you can easily pick up the rows you need.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com|||NiTiN (emailme.nitin@.gmail.com) writes:
> I'm a new T-SQL developer and just hit a roadblock.
> I have a scenario that goes like this: I have 2 stored procedures,
> spInner and spOuter. spInner has a SELECT statement which would
> normally be used by a class using MS Enterprise Library and that output
> goes into a DataSet. However, I need to get the output of the SELECT
> statement to go into spOuter and that's what I can't seem to figure
> out.
> I know I may be asked to use functions that return tables in replies to
> this post, but I can't do that as some parts of my application have an
> EXEC(string) for dynamic SQL, instead of spInner.
I have an article on my web site that discusses possible options. See
http://www.sommarskog.se/share_data.html.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

Passing SELECTed rows to a calling SP

Hi!

I'm a new T-SQL developer and just hit a roadblock.

I have a scenario that goes like this: I have 2 stored procedures,
spInner and spOuter. spInner has a SELECT statement which would
normally be used by a class using MS Enterprise Library and that output
goes into a DataSet. However, I need to get the output of the SELECT
statement to go into spOuter and that's what I can't seem to figure
out.

I know I may be asked to use functions that return tables in replies to
this post, but I can't do that as some parts of my application have an
EXEC(string) for dynamic SQL, instead of spInner.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers,
N.I.T.I.N.For the results of spInner to be available to spOuter, there are a few
options. I have used temporary tables or persisted the data into a real
table to avoid recompiles and also have a record of the data. If you use the
latter option, you can use a guid column and each row with a guid obtained
from spOuter. This way you can easily pick up the rows you need.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com|||NiTiN (emailme.nitin@.gmail.com) writes:

Quote:

Originally Posted by

I'm a new T-SQL developer and just hit a roadblock.
>
I have a scenario that goes like this: I have 2 stored procedures,
spInner and spOuter. spInner has a SELECT statement which would
normally be used by a class using MS Enterprise Library and that output
goes into a DataSet. However, I need to get the output of the SELECT
statement to go into spOuter and that's what I can't seem to figure
out.
>
I know I may be asked to use functions that return tables in replies to
this post, but I can't do that as some parts of my application have an
EXEC(string) for dynamic SQL, instead of spInner.

I have an article on my web site that discusses possible options. See
http://www.sommarskog.se/share_data.html.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se
Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...oads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodin...ions/books.mspx