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Susan Shaw asked on 22 Jul 2011, 06:42 PM

I have an issue with printing a report book. All the reports in the reportbook have an orientation of landscape, however, when you go to print, it always prints out portrait. Yes, I can go into the print dialog and change it manually to landscape, but I don't consider that a good option for my customers.

If I pass to the report viewer one report only, the page settings are respected and the report prints correctly. For a report book, the page settings are null, so when printing it doesn't know to print in landscape.

I really like your reportbook option, but frankly, with this problem, it really makes the option of using a report book unusable and sometimes subreports aren't a good option. I'm really hoping there's something I'm missing here, because otherwise, I have to set up individual reports where really only one report is wanted and needed.

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answered on 25 Jul 2011, 01:59 PM

Hi Susan,

You have not mentioned the most important thing - what is the report viewer you're using? For example the Silverlight report viewer native print has very limited API which does not allow to set the page orientation. This has to be done manually from the printer settings. To avoid this, switch to True printing by altering the UseNativePrinting property.

If the problem is somewhere else, please elaborate on your scenario.

Kind regards,
Steve
the Telerik team

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answered on 25 Jul 2011, 04:06 PM

I guess it would help if you knew which report viewer I'm using. I'm using the WPF report viewer, so the UseNativePrinting property isn't available.

Below is the xaml and code behind from a test WPF project

Susan

Xaml

Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"

xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

xmlns:telerik="clr-namespace:Telerik.ReportViewer.Wpf;assembly=Telerik.ReportViewer.Wpf"

Title="MainWindow" Height="300" Width="300" WindowState="Maximized">

<Grid>

<telerik:ReportViewer Name="reportViewer1"/>

</Grid>

Window>

Code Behind

using

System;

using

System.Collections.Generic;

using

System.Linq;

using

System.Text;

using

System.Windows;

using

System.Windows.Controls;

using

System.Windows.Data;

using

System.Windows.Documents;

using

System.Windows.Input;

using

System.Windows.Media;

using

System.Windows.Media.Imaging;

using

System.Windows.Shapes;

using

Telerik.Reporting;

namespace

WpfApplication1

{

/// <summary>

/// Interaction logic for MainWindow.xaml

/// </summary>

public partial class MainWindow : Window

{

public MainWindow()

{

InitializeComponent();

this.Loaded += new RoutedEventHandler(MainWindow_Loaded);

}

void MainWindow_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

{

ReportBook reportBook = new ReportBook();

reportBook.Reports.Add(

new ReportBookTest.Report1());

reportBook.Reports.Add(

new ReportBookTest.Report2());

//will have page settings

//this.reportViewer1.Report = new ReportBookTest.Report1();

//will not have page settings

this.reportViewer1.Report = reportBook;

}

answered on 18 Dec 2012, 02:40 PM

Hi guys,

Our intent and dedication to address existing problems has not changed, but sometimes our plans are subject to change due to other fixes/features and this is what caused the delay in addressing this particular issue. The good news is we're currently working on fixing it as we speak and it would be part of the Q3 2012 service pack that would be released early next year.

Thank you all for the understanding.

All the best,
Steve
the Telerik team

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answered on 03 Jan 2013, 01:30 PM

Hello Jeff,

My previous reply is from Dec 18th 2012, stating that this would be fixed for the upcoming Q3 2012 service pack next week. The problem you talk about however does not seem to be the one discussed in this forum, as setting manually Landscape won't fix it. The problem in this thread appears only when you have a report book with reports with different layout (Portrait and LandScape). If your problem is different, please open a new thread and elaborate on your scenario.

Greetings,
Steve
the Telerik team