RDLC reports are not respecting my page height option

Question

I am passing in this DeviceInfo to the report:

<DeviceInfo>
  <OutputFormat>Word</OutputFormat>
  <PageWidth>11in</PageWidth>
  <PageHeight>8.5in</PageHeight>
  <MarginTop>1in</MarginTop>
  <MarginLeft>0.5in</MarginLeft>
  <MarginRight>0.5in</MarginRight>
  <MarginBottom>1in</MarginBottom>
</DeviceInfo>

However when the report renders (as Word or PDF), the page size is 11 by 11 inches, rather than 11 by 8.5 (landscape). Why is this? How can I get the report to render with the proper size?

Here is where I render the report:

byte[] bytes = Report.Render( // Report is an instance of the Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.LocalReport class
    reportType,
    deviceInfo, // this contains the XML above
    out mimeType,
    out encoding,
    out fileNameExtension,
    out streams,
    out warnings);

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '19 at 16:50

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In the Report builder or Visual Studio you have also to set the Layout of the Report to Landscape so it will know how to render

answered Oct 30 '19 at 16:50

Rampage64

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Hmm, I'm not using a report builder or Visual Studio to define the report; rather I'm using C# code to generate the report. Do you know where this would be set? – ekolis Oct 30 '19 at 17:00
you are using C# code to generate the `*.rdlc` files? you could try this: `System.Drawing.Printing.PageSettings ps = new System.Drawing.Printing.PageSettings(); ps.Landscape = true; ps.PaperSize = new System.Drawing.Printing.PaperSize("A4", 827, 1170); ps.PaperSize.RawKind = (int)System.Drawing.Printing.PaperKind.A4; reportViewer.SetPageSettings(ps);` I never tried that, give it a try :) – Rampage64 Oct 30 '19 at 17:03
I'm not using a `ReportViewer`; the report is generated as HTML, PDF, Word, or Excel using the `Report.Render` call above. – ekolis Oct 30 '19 at 17:08
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, how you create the definition file of the `rdlc` file ? - if you do not use an ReportViewer try at least to use in the code just to export the report and not to place it in the GUI – Rampage64 Oct 30 '19 at 17:15
The RDLC is generated using a variety of custom classes which output various RDLC XML elements. – ekolis Oct 30 '19 at 17:19
Well then you have to modify the xml definition I guess.. I'm not sure about the xml structure of the rdlc definition itself - you need to google that if that is possible. Good Luck – Rampage64 Oct 30 '19 at 17:37
Try This link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21455090/printing-landscape-portrait-in-rdlc-without-preview – Rampage64 Oct 30 '19 at 17:40
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/201618/discussion-between-flamur-muji-and-ekolis). – Rampage64 Oct 30 '19 at 17:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '19 at 19:06

It looks like the report page size was not being initialized properly, so I did so:

var page = report.Page;

page.LeftMargin = LeftMargin;
page.RightMargin = RightMargin;

page.TopMargin = TopMargin;
page.BottomMargin = BottomMargin;

// I added these next two lines
page.PageWidth = PageWidth;
page.PageHeight = PageHeight;

RDLC reports are not respecting my page height option

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