For a quick temporary solution I made an image of a form that the users wanted to have programatically filled out. I then embedded that image in a report and filled the page with the image. I then put the fields on top of the image to fill out the areas in the form that needs filling. I realize this may not be the best solution, but it worked and we needed to get something working in just a couple days and as long as the user exports it to PDF, it works fine.
Normally there are only a few pages, but today they have almost 40 pages. The problem is that after about page 35, the image becomes a small red X (like when an image is missing on a web page) but it will still print the text that goes on top of the image.
To add to my confusion, after a couple tweaks of how it page breaks, the report will run fine on my PC but not on the server. This report is using the Visual Studio reports and are stored on the intranet server not the SQL Server.
The image is about 250k and is a PNG.
I hope I have explained this clearly. Any ideas?
I believe I fixed this by creating a PDF through code instead of using the report viewer. I haven’t found a better way to do this.