Reporting Services makes everything smaller when exporting to pdf

Question

I have a basic report in Reporting Services 2005, with a few header text boxes and a table with a header row and some detail rows.
I have the page layout setup as an 8.5 x 11 with 0.3in margins set all the way around. The table and all the textboxes have a 7.625in width.

• In the viewer the report looks fine.
• In the viewer in the Print Layout Mode, the report appears to have a little extra margin space on the right. Its not equal on both sides.
• Printed to paper from the viewer (print layout mode or not) the report prints perfectly, equal margins on both sides.
• Printed to PDF, everything is a tad smaller, so the right margin looks a lot bigger, when in fact the fonts appear to be a little smaller as well as the heights and widths of the table and its columns/rows.

Has anyone else had these differences between the views/prints, most specifically the PDF? Is there anything I can try to make these all look uniform in spacing?

Answer 1

You can try passing some DeviceInfo when rendering your PDF file. It will give special instructions to the Renderer when the PDF file is created.

Take a look here.