Printing causes squashed text in wrong font, exporting works correctly
I have created several reports for my SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 SP2 server, using Visual Studio 2008 on my machine. The reports objects all use Arial as their font, in various sizes and weights. When I test them in VS, all looks fine, and I can print them and export them okay. When I deploy them to the server though, they look fine on-screen and if exported to PDF, but when printed directly from the web viewer, the fonts seem to go 'missing' - all the characters are squashed together as if there was a slight negative character-offset. Thanks, Mark Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SP1) - 10.0.2531.0 (X64) Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Version 2007.0100.2531.00 ((Katmai_PCU_Main).090329-1015)
July 9th, 2010 7:03pm

Check to make sure your report items are not overlapping. We had this same issue when rendering reports into PDF format from a browser. The reason is that HTML doesn't support overlapping items. Hope this helps, Chris
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July 10th, 2010 12:40am

I don't think it's that. I used to get warnings about overlapping errors when previewing the reports, so made sure that's not the case. Seems to do it for all items on the report too, regardless of where they are. Here's a sample, in case it helps (click to enlarge): The working version printed from within VS2008: The broken version printed from the deployed report:
July 26th, 2010 3:29pm

I'm having this exact same outcome intermittently from a terminal server. Word documents, Emails, etc look fine on screen, but when printed the font appears to change and become squished together. Happens across different users and different printers, the only constant is the server itself. Working my way through the 619 fonts installed on the box to try and find if there's some kind issue with one of them, but it's tricky as it's very intermittent.
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February 10th, 2011 6:36pm

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