"Lisa Slater Nicholls" wrote:

> Is this using the ReportViewer control (client-side) or server side?
>
> IAC -- here is what I know on this issue,which is not particular Reporting
> Services specific:
>
> 1) It is easy to move multiple source files into a PDF file if the source
> files are in postscript.
>
> 2) Most printing engines can write postscript files simply by specifying a
> postscript print driver
>
> 3) postscript drivers come with the OS.
>
> 4) It is easier to manage this type of activity client-side than
> server-side, for many reasons.
>
> Here is some advice for you:
>
> You can find a demo app with code for printing reports without UI, using the
> ReportViewer control, on this page. http://www.gotreportviewer.com/
>
> I expect it can be adapted to go to a ps printer driver and given target
> file information (or the ps driver setup can be set to go to a file target
> explicitly -- but that doesn't seem thread safe to me).
>
> Then you can use standard postscript to PDF capabilites to convert the
> string of files you just wrote out. I use Ghostscript to do this, you don't
> need Adobe and you don't need any UI for this step either.
>
> You can learn about Ghostscript here http://www.ghostscript.com/awki There
> is a overview of command-line switches here
> http://ghostscript.com/doc/8.54/Use.htm#Options -- for your purposes, pay
> particular attention to the ability to create a commandfile listing all the
> switches as well as all the files you wish to process in this run (more
> flexible than listing the files directly on the command line if your list
> may be long). YOu may prefer to use the API directly (DLLs rather than
> command-line). It's quite extensive.
>
> >L<
>
>
> "Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BB990321-62C2-4EEC-9535-9C870DE7BC6A@microsoft.com...
> > Is it possible to render multiple reports and then export them to 1 PDF
> > file?
> > If so, how can this be accomplished?
>