Report print differs from preview when RTL characters are used

[Rehan]

Hello,
I am having some trouble with regards to a string in htmlTextBox. The string includes a combination of both English and Arabic substrings. In my database I have a separate column for storing English and separate column for storing Arabic. I am retrieving both columns as a single value using the following query
ItemDescriptionEN + '<br/>' + ItemDescriptionAR as [ItemDescription]
Most of the time it works fine, but sometimes, when the [ItemDescription] has numeric digits, it displays the value just fine during the Preview in report viewer, but disturbs the arrangement of RTL letters when exporting to PDF or directly printing from printer.

Kindly find the attached pictures:

1- Preview.PNG: (Shows everything is fine.)

2- After Export or print.PNG. (Disturbs the string when exported as PDF or if sent direct to printer for printing)

 

Kindly recommend any alternate report control to handle the '<br/>' in the description, or provide a solution to this problem.

Thanks

 

[Neli]

Hello Rehan,

I was able to reproduce the described behavior and I made some tests in order to avoid it. Because at this point I cannot suggest any workaround, I logged the issue as a bug in our Feedback portal- RTL text is not exported to PDF/ printed correctly when it contains strings and digits.

An option is to export to the Tif export format where the document is exported correctly. Note that basically, RTL (Right to Left) is not supported in the HtmlTextBox and this is one of the known limitations related to this report item.

Can you confirm that the issue is reproducible on your side when you are trying to print/ export to PDF from HTML5-based report viewer? 

Regards,
Neli
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