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Printing cheques in SSRS?


I am investigating SSRS 2005 as a possible reporting solution for a client and one of my requirements is to print cheques. Is the only way to do this to create a report in SSRS with the dimensions of the cheque with the data fields positioned properly or is there a better way of doing this? I have googled this problem but I am getting a lot of results for 'checkboxes', 'checking SSRS', and so on so that has been no help.

Thanks!


Solution

  • Yes, this could be done, and it would probably work pretty well. But SSRS isn't an ideal answer: printing from a web report is subject to the differences in browsers and their page setups & margins. Generating a .pdf and then printing seems like more steps than desirable.

    If you decide to go ahead with this, use Rectangles: they try to hold their positions, even when the size of contents change. Also, set the CanGrow property to False everywhere.