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Greetings, its a good suggestion you have got there, i have tried it and everything went smoothly, but the images are not being generated....by smoothly i mean there is no error or anything like that. just a cross appears in the omage control (i have tried placing simple as well as html text in the database field)
awaiting response. thanks in advance.
adnan shamim
fastian1335@yahoo.com, adnan.shamim@ekalsoft.com

The control isn't meant to convert HTML, it will only work with text formatted using the RTF specification.  There is one problem I was never able to resolve when I wrote this class.  The resolution being returned is 96dpi, which looks great on screen, but when you print it out the quality of the printed text is unacceptable.  I've since started writing my own RTF parser and a custom control so that I can change the DPI of the rendered image depending on whether it is being displayed or printed, but if anyone has a way to do this using my original class, feel free to save me a couple hundred hours of work and post your workaround :)

THis all works, when I am in the project solution, but when I deploy and try to see it working through the Reports Server (HTML interface) it come up with just a square in the imae control. I have tested to see whether the dll is actually working by just writing a simple function in the richtextimager.dll which just outputs text to a field in the report and it does, so it seems like it is something with the image.

Also I can not debug when the report loads up through the reports manager web interface.

pls. can you help me with this

If you look in the read me file he included, I provided a full walkthrough on where you need to copy the DLL files as well as how to give it proper security rights within reporting services.

Works like a charm!

It's handy to see the XML source of the sample report, and in my case it was the first time using code inside a report so the instructions where baffling at first... until I saw the tags in the sample reports.

Thanks for saving the day!

Have you tried just running the RTF string through the RichTextBox control in System.Windows.Forms?

You can create a new instance of this control type, then pass the RTF string via the "Rtf" property.  Then retrieve the unformatted text using the Text property.

This will not display line breaks and tabbing in HTML, but when you export to PDF it will show those just fine.

I am able to view the RTF data in the Report Preview (Design Time), but at Runtime the same does not work. i have checked the references to RichTextImager.dll but still no luck.

Any pointers?

SQL Server Report Preview works corrrectly at design time, but the same doesnot work when I run the report.

My confusion is why the configuration changes are not working at runtime when it works at desing time.

Any help is very much appreciated.

I did a workaround to resolve the issue.

I used the RTFTextImager.dll to create an RTF Image file (byte array) and save it to a Image field in database. I then used an Image control on the SQL Server report to render the image of the database.

Works like a charm!!

I am able to successfully use this thanks for the same, but when i export to excel and open it, it opens with the error "File Error : data may have been lost" and when it opens all my images are gone including the image that was created using above custom dll. Please help me in this regards at the earliest.  

In addition to comment above by me other exports works fine, without any problem (ie PDF, TIFF, CSV and Web archive). Your response will be greatly appriciated,

Thanks

Hi, I just tried Your control and it functions very well with RTF, but my situation is different.

I need to get an image (for a report) from an Html Text, Do You have some suggestions to translate HTML to RTF, using c# ? in this way with Your control I can resolve my problem (or not ?)

Thank You

hi,

the solution in this state is useless. How do you deal with:

- page breaks at runtime

- 300dpi printer quality

the last problem can be solved by setting FitProportional and sizing the image for 300dpi quality. However, managing page breaks is something I never got around.

Any Ideas?

write: scholz.sebastian@gmail.com

Sebastian

I used it and it works perfectly in development environment (Visual Studio 2005) but there are some issues while deployment.

When I follow the steps and deploy it, it’s being deployed properly but while running its giving RED CROSS instead of the image.

Kindly Suggest me a solution

I tried using RTFIMAGER.dll to convert HTML text to image and display the image in the report.But there is an issue. The image does not come up. Its shows Red cross instead of image. Can any one throw light on this?

Any one fixed the issue with the image not displaying but just an X? any comment will be appreciated...