DETAILS:
I'm using CR 11.0.0.1282 to create and edit reports. Reports are targeted for a public website and are rendered as a PDF for viewing and printing. We are running 40 or 50 different reports on this particular website. One report is rendering incorrectly, others may be having trouble that we haven't discovered yet, but two other reports that are extremely similar do not appear to have the same problem.
On my local machine I'm running Windows 7 using IE 10.0
The target server is running Windows Server 2012
I am using Visual Studio 2010 to edit this particular website.
The CR runtime on both my local machine and on the target webserver is 13.0.2000
When I debug the website with Visual Studio on my local IIS server, the report renders properly and looks exactly like it does when I run it from the editor.
When I deploy the report to the webserver and browse to it from my local machine, the report scales differently with the first page coming to an end about two lines earlier than when it is being served from my machine and getting further off as you move down.
THE BIG ISSUE:
A text field that spans the bottom of the second page and the top of the third page is missing three lines where it spans the pages. The text field picks up three lines later at the top of the third page as if nothing is wrong. At first I thought the header or footer must be overlapping them, but suppressing the header and footer did not resolve the problem. I have tried every formatting trick in the book and nothing seems to help. Additionally, the problem does not appear limited to this one field. If the data is adjusted so that a different field hits the page break, it loses lines too. Data in these fields can be very long so checking "Keep Together" on the section expert or "Keep Object Together" on the "common" tab of the "format field" dialog is a poor solution and also does not seem to work when deployed to the server.
I realize that the problem is probably a printer driver issue. On my local machine I have several printers installed. On the target machine, only the default Microsoft XPS Document Writer printer is installed. I already tried changing my default printer to the XPS printer and checking the "No Printer (optimize for screen display)" option in "Page Setup".
Although I will be willing to try other formatting suggestions, the solution we really want is a server solution as we suspect that this issue may be affecting other reports on the server. There are hundreds of reports deployed on various websites on this server and hundreds more deployed on other servers within our organization.
Any suggestions?