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Reporting Services TIFF export quality

sgt_sunshine
6/16/2005 2:31:31 PM

sql server reporting services:

Hi

I've got a question regarding the TIFFs that are generated by Reporting
Services. The problem I am having right now, is that documents that
are exported into TIFFs are in bad quality - i.e. the text does not
seem to be 'ClearTyped'.

I installed the powertoy: ClearTypeTuner for the server, thinking
perhaps that would force the TIFFs to generate fonts with smoothed
edges.

Unfortunately this did not work. I know that cleartype is not
supported through remote desktop. I wonder if this is the case as well
for Reporting Services - when generating a TIFF image from the report
server, cleartype is not supported as well.

I could probably be totally wrong - and would like it if somebody could
just point me in the right direction.

Cheers.

RE: Reporting Services TIFF export quality

Ted K
6/16/2005 7:40:02 PM

TIFF files default to 72 dpi. This makes for smaller files, and is legible
but not very nice looking. Change the device info settings to a higher dpi
and you should be happy with the smoothness of the fonts.

Ted

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Re: Reporting Services TIFF export quality

sgt_sunshine
6/16/2005 8:22:47 PM

Yes I have done just that but unfortunately the quality is just not on
par with a PDF document, plus it now takes a longer time to generate a
report at 200 or 300 dpi.

I currently have the reports printing at 200 dpi but I suspect I will
need another workaround.

This problem is related to another I have been having - barcode
printing. If I can solve the barcode printing problem, I should solve
this as well.

Thanks anyway - I wasn't expecting any replies so soon.

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