Print Preview vs. Printing

[cchang]

When a user prints the Aged Payables report, it is cutting off the last columns and printing them on the next page. It print preview correctly but not when printed from the printer. We tried going into Actions > Remove Defaults but that did not resolve the issue.

[TobyLai]

I have asked the support about this a while ago.

They said that because different printer has different printer margin limit. The fix is to make your content slightly smaller.

For us, we ask everyone to preview first to make sure the thing you are printing is the right thing.

[ckrusen (Calvin Krusen)]

We often preview, then print right from the PDF viewer. Using “Shrink oversized pages” in Acrobat’s print dialog, guarantees it’ll fit on the page.

[cchang]

It previews and prints correctly from print preview. This is using a standard-ssrs report. There is no customization but when we go in base mode it prints correctly.

[hkeric.wci (Haso Keric)]

Printing to Printer 10.1 v 10.2 - SSRS PDF Output Difference

Does anyone know of any PDF Rendering Changes in 10.2.300. Example: MICR RDL Untouched, Unchanged - Prints misaligned in 10.2.300 Prints Spot on in 10.1 Almost as if in 10.2.300 when you select Output PDF and you Print to a Printer it doubles margins. If I change the Margins on RDL to 0,0,0,0 it no-longer whacks out of alignment but then I just have to adjust all the positions. Almost as if the 10.2.300 PDF Rednering Engine sets it to “Scale to Fit” while 10.1 sets it “Scale to 100%”. Noth…

[cchang]

It seems like it’s only happening when I test printing to a “Redirected” printer on the terminal server. When I print preview to PDF using one of the Redirect printers, I can see the columns being cutoff but if I print preview to PDF using ‘Microsoft print to PDF’ printer, then it is fine. Not sure why the redirected printer on the server would be causing this.

[ckrusen (Calvin Krusen)]

What if you preview it (using PDF as the ouput, not by printing to a PDF maker), and then print from the PDF Preview?

[cchang]

Yes printing from print preview first works fine if its not from the redirect printer. If I print preview first from the redirect then it is not printing correctly.

[hkeric.wci (Haso Keric)]

If you read the post I linked it explains what Epicor does when it Prints and what it does when you Print Preview it does 2 seperate things. So when you “Print Preview” to the redirect, you are actually Printing to the Redirect and it just happens that it Prints to a PDF (it feels like a Print Preview, but its actually a Print → Open PDF) – Epicor executes the same logic a regular “Print” would.

by @JeffLeBert

Printing to Printer 10.1 v 10.2 - SSRS PDF Output Difference

Let me try to sum this all up. Some of this is from memory so don’t throw anything if I make a mistake. First, let’s talk about how PDFs are used in printing. E10 asks SSRS to render a PDF. That is 100% handled by SSRS. That seems to have stayed very stable across the versions of SSRS. Somewhere above in the thread it was asked to email the report so you could get the actual PDF. You could also save from System Monitor even after it is printed. These, as far as I know, would stay identical acro…

I get 2 different results when I:

1. Print Preview
2. Select Client Printer and Print to “Adobe PDF” or “Microsoft PDF” or “FoxIT PDF” or “SnagIt”, they all open the PDF as a Preview after the action, but ultimately the path chosen by Epicor was “Print” not Print Preview. Epicor executes the Print Logic using https://www.pdfprinting.net/ while the Preview is just pure SSRS.

“There is a difference between Print Preview and Print to PDF” - Anonymous