Print Layout on Published Paginated Report Changing Formatting

[kmaynard]

Hi all, I created a report in Report Builder and published to the BI online service.

When I click Print Layout in the online service, it shifts the margins so that a text box shifts and the bottom line moves to a 2nd page.

When I am in Report Builder and click Print Layout everything is correct. 

Screen shots attached of both Print Layouts.

The font used is a simple Arial Narrow. I have checked all of print numbers in Report Builder. I don't understand why it works in Report Builder, but not the published service.

Online service Print Layout:

Report Builder Print Layout: 

[kmaynard · Accepted solution]

From what I have gathered, each renderer (PDF, excel, word) renders the paginated reports differently. While I was creating the report, I would run it in Report Builder and directly "print" to PDF to see if it looked ok, and it did look ok.  However, when I exported to PDF, it would not look the same. Since I need to publish this to BI and BI does not give the option to direct print to PDF (you must export), I resolved to just published it to BI each time after I made an adjustment and clicked export to PDF to see how it looked. Thank you all for your help! 

[kmaynard]

The same issue happens whether I export as PDF from Report Builder or export as PDF from the published report through the online service. It seems to be an issue specifically when rendering to Adobe PDF. So, I don't understand why rendering a PDF causes the issue. 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply from lbendlin.

Hi @kmaynard ,

Based on your description, I created a paginated report:

Report Builder view is as follows:

When I publish to service and export as pdf, it reproduces your problem:

It's really annoying when you encounter such a situation, you can solve this problem by resizing the text box.

Best Regards,
Zhu
Community Support Team

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution  to help the other members find it more quickly.
If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please feel free to let us know. Thanks a lot!

[lbendlin]

If you have a Pro license you can open a Pro ticket at https://admin.powerplatform.microsoft.com/newsupportticket/powerbi
Otherwise you can raise an issue at https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Issues/idb-p/Issues .

[lbendlin]

Neither Power BI Desktop nor Power BI Service give any rendering guarantee.  Do you see the same issue when exporting to PDF from the service?