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hugoberry
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8 years ago
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Euro sign missing while rendering to PDF

In apaginated report if it mentions the euro sign, the rendering works fine for all the formats (docx, xlsx, ..) except for the PDF. In PDF format the euro sign renders as a questionmark '?'. I've t...
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  • hugoberry's avatar
    hugoberry
    8 years ago

    Found a fix. Although I believe that has to be working by default.

    Include the following ovverride in RSReprtServer.config

     

    <Extension Name="PDF" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.ImageRenderer.PDFRenderer,Microsoft.ReportingServices.ImageRendering">
	<Configuration>  
		<DeviceInfo>  
			<HumanReadablePDF>true</HumanReadablePDF>
		</DeviceInfo>  
	</Configuration>
</Extension>

     For @msft dev people, here is how to troubleshoot the underlying problem

    https://blog.idrsolutions.com/2011/04/mystery-of-the-pdf-file-and-the-missing-euro-character/

    an interesting historical bug in PDF rendering

AlexD's avatar
AlexD
New Member
7 years ago

Hi,

 

we are facing the same problems with paginated reports / PDF rendering and the euro sign. The "HumanReadablePDF" flag is not really an option.

 

@Microsoft:

 

Please fix this bug.

 

Thanks.