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Do you know if this behavior has been improved in SSRS 2008?<br />
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I think I figured this out. If the are that the report takes up + the page margins exceed the page size, things get screwed up really fast. Once I made sure that everything fit within the margins, the form rendered nearly perfectly in the browser.<br />
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JCinDE, I did try your idea of Print Preview and it printed A-OK.
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I ended up creating a new report and added an item, published it, view and repeat until I got the layout I wanted.<br />
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I was asked to create a report that mirrors a PowerPoint slide used for reporting on project status/info. The report is a custom layout made up of Panels &amp;&nbsp;Textbox controls.<br />
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The issue I am having is that when I preview the report in Visual Studio, it looks just the way I designed it. But when I run the report from IE, the textboxes don't line up, have gaps between them etc... Basically, it looks like crap. Export the report to PDF from the crappy looking IE rendering and it is perfect. WTF?<br />
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Anyone know why this would happen? I triple checked for overlapping textboxes as I have read that this behavior will occur if you have those. Don't have any. The textboxes ARE butted up next to each other so that the borders overlap, but the content doesn't overlap.<br />
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I have attached a couple files to illustrate what I am seeing. I have spent hours of research trying to figure this out, but so far, no luck.<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2009/01_w04/97752/ReportInIDE.png" target="_blank" class="file-inline" title="Report rendered in PREVIEW mode in IDE. (47 KB)"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M67.508 468.467c-58.005-58.013-58.016-151.92 0-209.943l225.011-225.04c44.643-44.645 117.279-44.645 161.92 0 44.743 44.749 44.753 117.186 0 161.944l-189.465 189.49c-31.41 31.413-82.518 31.412-113.926.001-31.479-31.482-31.49-82.453 0-113.944L311.51 110.491c4.687-4.687 12.286-4.687 16.972 0l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.685 12.283 0 16.969L184.983 304.917c-12.724 12.724-12.73 33.328 0 46.058 12.696 12.697 33.356 12.699 46.054-.001l189.465-189.489c25.987-25.989 25.994-68.06.001-94.056-25.931-25.934-68.119-25.932-94.049 0l-225.01 225.039c-39.249 39.252-39.258 102.795-.001 142.057 39.285 39.29 102.885 39.287 142.162-.028A739446.174 739446.174 0 0 1 439.497 238.49c4.686-4.687 12.282-4.684 16.969.004l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.689 12.279.004 16.965a755654.128 755654.128 0 0 0-195.881 195.996c-58.034 58.092-152.004 58.093-210.048.041z"/></svg>ReportInIDE.png</a><br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2009/01_w04/97753/ReportOnWeb.png" target="_blank" class="file-inline" title="Same Report rendered on web in IE7. (50 KB)"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M67.508 468.467c-58.005-58.013-58.016-151.92 0-209.943l225.011-225.04c44.643-44.645 117.279-44.645 161.92 0 44.743 44.749 44.753 117.186 0 161.944l-189.465 189.49c-31.41 31.413-82.518 31.412-113.926.001-31.479-31.482-31.49-82.453 0-113.944L311.51 110.491c4.687-4.687 12.286-4.687 16.972 0l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.685 12.283 0 16.969L184.983 304.917c-12.724 12.724-12.73 33.328 0 46.058 12.696 12.697 33.356 12.699 46.054-.001l189.465-189.489c25.987-25.989 25.994-68.06.001-94.056-25.931-25.934-68.119-25.932-94.049 0l-225.01 225.039c-39.249 39.252-39.258 102.795-.001 142.057 39.285 39.29 102.885 39.287 142.162-.028A739446.174 739446.174 0 0 1 439.497 238.49c4.686-4.687 12.282-4.684 16.969.004l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.689 12.279.004 16.965a755654.128 755654.128 0 0 0-195.881 195.996c-58.034 58.092-152.004 58.093-210.048.041z"/></svg>ReportOnWeb.png</a>
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I was asked to create a report that mirrors a PowerPoint slide used for reporting on project status/info. The report is a custom layout made up of Panels & Textbox controls.

The issue I am having is that when I preview the report in Visual Studio, it looks just the way I designed it. But when I run the report from IE, the textboxes don't line up, have gaps between them etc... Basically, it looks like crap. Export the report to PDF from the crappy looking IE rendering and it is perfect. WTF?

Anyone know why this would happen? I triple checked for overlapping textboxes as I have read that this behavior will occur if you have those. Don't have any. The textboxes ARE butted up next to each other so that the borders overlap, but the content doesn't overlap.

I have attached a couple files to illustrate what I am seeing. I have spent hours of research trying to figure this out, but so far, no luck.




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SSRS 2005 Report Looks Perfect in Preview &amp; PDF Export. Looks like crap in browser. Why?

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