Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services is a robust .NET solution which allows you to produce PDF reports from Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 Reporting Services.
Most RDL report features are supported within Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services, allowing you to generate the highest quality PDF reports - even reports that contain tables, charts and images.
Common Uses
Render .RDL report documents into PDF format directly from Reporting Services.
Integrate Aspose.PDF for Reporting Services with Microsoft Report Viewer in Local mode.
Create Table of Contents, List of Tables or List of Figures for PDF documents.
Specify Arrows for new lines in reports.
Add Footnotes and Endnotes for Textboxes from inside the report document.
Render HTML code within textboxes in HTML rather than standard plain text.
Explicitly specify the orientation of each page within reports.
Specify security constraints for the resultant PDF document.
Embed font information into your PDF document.
Specify page size information for the resultant PDF.
Add corresponding XMP Metadata into PDF documents.
Create PDF/A compliant documents.
Set the page margin size information for producted PDF documents.
Key Features
Comprehensive RDL Support
Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services happily supports the RDL specification. This means that there is no need to redesign or customize your existing reports to work with Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services.
You can simply use the RDL report designer of your choice and the report will be exported exactly the way you designed it. Aspose.Pdf also allows you to add to a reports design by giving you the option of adding custom properties for all report items.
Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services supports the following RDL elements:
Sections
Headers
Footers
Textboxes
Images
Charts
Lists
Tables
Matrices
Styles
Rectangles
Lines
Easy and Lightweight Deployment
Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services is a custom rendering extension for Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 Reporting Services. Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services is provided as a single MSI installer or as a separate .dll file that can be installed on the servers running either Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services.
Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services is easy to deploy and manage, as it's only comprised of one .NET assembly Aspose.Pdf.ReportingServices.dll, written completely in C#, CLS compliant and containing only safe managed code. To run Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services you need to have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed on the server.
List of Contents
Some larger documents need a list of contents in the PDF document to allow easy navigation. Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services fully supports the following types of predefined lists:
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Parametric support
You can specify many configuration parameters that have an effect on how Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services generates documents. The following list defines a handful of the many parameters supported by Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services
Page Orientation
HTML Formatting
Security Settings
PageSize
XMP Metadata
PDF Conformance
Footnote or Endnote
Line Arrows
Report Viewer
Aspose.Pdf for Reporting Services supports the Report Viewer control for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services in local mode.