Barcode font "shrinks" during PDF export

Hi all,

I'm using a free barcode font so i can create scannable tickets via reporting services 2k5. When I print the tickets, everything seems fine. But when i export to PDF though, it looks like the barcode font shrunk. All the lines are pulled together, making scanning impossible. Is there a certain setting or so that i can use to ensure the font's width ?

-Update-
The weird thing is: when i export it inside visual studio, the barcode is shown as it is supposed to in the pdf !?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

I am facing the same issue.

Microsoft please reply.

Regards and TIA,

Ashish

|||Did you try to change the Report Properties to set the margin to 0 ?
And make sure your design area does not exceed the paper size set in the property box and exactly fit the paper format on the printer?
I am myself having trouble with pdf page exported from ReportManager not be not too accurate. Kind of a hit and miss trial and error page set-up formating process until it gets right.
Reporting Services is not doing an excellent job at printing things, not from a typography point of view.
Any improvement would be more than welcome.
Philippe|||

sorry for the late reply !

yep i tried that, but hlas, no changes :(

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Hi,

I hate to say this, but we really did nothing to resolve the issue. Nor did I get any replies for this issue.

We just restarted the SSRS server for some reason and after that we found that it was working fine. I would suggest that you give it a shot restart the server and it may click in your case also.

HTH

Regards,

Ashish

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I have seen several barcode fonts that do not include the correct spacing or at least do not report the correct spacing through the Win32 APIs our PDF renderer calls. It's also very possible we have a bug in that area.

If you file a bug at http://connect.microsoft.com and include the rdl and font, I'll gladly take a look.

Thanks,

Donovan Smith

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In my own experience, the barcod39.ttf TrueType font renders properly in every renderer except pdf. In pdf, it appears to arbitrarily expand spaces to fill the control.

I'd love to see that fixed.

Tim Bailey
Energy Laboratories, Inc.