We are developing a complex structured report, this report has lots of fields and these fields get populated sometime. when these fields are not populated field placement changes for few fields around that empty field.
Is there a way to lock in a field at a particular place.
I extract report in PDF.
I think you are fighting a loosing battle if you are trying to get pixel-perfect rendering, especially since it uses different rendering engines for different output types (e.g. pdf vs html).