Has the SQL Reporting Rendering Engine changed in CTP4

bmccarthy

Hi,
part of our addin solution adds text to reports to control application parameters via a virtual printer. Using CTP3 we modified the SQL Layout to contain these text values and everything worked fine. In the CTP4 preview we have noticed that this no longer works and that the rendered quality of the SQL reports printed from the Role Tailored client has disimproved.


Has the rendering engine changed for the SQL reports since CTP3?
And what will be the finally used method come release?
Or is there a way to change how the SQL report is rendered when printed to a printer?

Any help on this would be greatfully received!

ara3n

I think you will need to talk to MS. They would know the details on what has changed.
Also what do you mean by rendered quality ?

clausl

Hi bmccarthy,

From CTP3 to CTP4 we upgraded from Report Viewer 2005 to Report Viewer 2008.

I would like to understand your issue. Would it be possible for you to post a screenshot or make a scan of the printed report?

Regards,
Claus

bmccarthy

Ya sure, where should I post it for you??

To give some more detail, we use a third party printer driver (blackice EMF) which outputs EMF files. With CTP3 this driver correctly represented the text in the NAV SQL reports in EMF and the text was searchable. In CTP4 it seems that the text is no longer present or has different encoding. I also noticed the in our EMF viewer that the render report quality dropped and hence thought perhaps the rendering had changed completely.

Cheers
Bryan

bmccarthy

Ok, I've got a good example... Print a report from the classic client to Microsoft Document Imaging. Notice how you can cut and paste text from the resulting XPS file to Notepad. Now run a report from RTC and do the same. Notice that you are not getting any text when you paste. I think you will find that if you do this test on CTP3 (which uses Sql Reporting 2005) that you can cut and paste the text for both Classic and SQL report versions. This is exactly my problem only I am printing to EMF.
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freddy.dk

In CTP3 we where using Microsoft Report Viewer 2005 - in CTP4 we shifted to use Microsoft Report Viewer 2008.
I must admit that I never tested this on CTP3 - but I can see what you mean - I cannot select and copy text either.
I have seen this behavior on some web pages, where selection is weird.

BTW -I did try to download SP1 for the ReportViewer - that doesn't seem to solve the problem.

It is probably something we need to take to the SQL team

Stryke69

Hi,
do you have any solution for this meanwhile?

Thanks, Alex

PhilThome

There's another strange thing: using SAVEASPDF the quality is much better than when running the report. Any suggestions where this difference might come from?