Problems with SSRS & pdf-export after subsequent installation of fonts

nospam@example.com (Addicted2AX) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:13:09 +0200

Today I had to do a subsequent installation of some fonts that were not available on SSRS server after initial installation.

Even though the new fonts were available in Notepad and also worked fine with it, I had some trouble to make the fonts work with reporting services and in reports exported into a pdf-document.

After checking the pdf-document report-layout was totally broken. The reason for that problem was simple: Not the subsequently installed and in the report used font was utilized but another (randomly chosen?) windows font, although the newly installed font was correctly embedded into the pdf-document.

I have restarted the SSRS-services but the problem continued.
Long story short: I had to reboot the complete Server. After the reboot the problem was gone.

Maybe an obvious solution but the problem was that a lot of consultants and developer worked on that server, so it was bigger trouble to reboot it contemporary.

Blank, last page in SSRS-Report

nospam@example.com (Addicted2AX) — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:53:22 +0200

Ok, it took some time but here is a new entry. A short one.

You may face this problem sooner or later, when creating a SSRS-report with SQL Server 2008. It can happen with both plain Reporting Services and SSRS with Dynamics AX 2012.

After creating a report all looks fine, till you reach the end of the report. Although the last page with report-data has plenty of space left, there is a last completely empty - meaning white page – at the end of the report.

With Reporting Services for SQL Server 2005 you did not face this kind of problem, because white spaces are removed automatically. This is not a bug just a changed behavior.

But how to solve this problem with SQL Server 2008?
Quite simple: Just select the properties of the report. Look for the ConsumeContainerWhitespace-property. If the value is FALSE change it to TRUE and your problem with a last white page in SSRS-reports should be history.

Tipp: If you have the problem that there is a page with report-data, followed by a blank one, followed by a page with report data, a blank one and so on, the problem is different but as easy to solve. Just make sure that Body Width of the report + Left margin + Right margin are together smaller than the Page Width.

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Problems with SSRS & pdf-export after subsequent installation of fonts

Blank, last page in SSRS-Report