Unwanted Page Breaks in ReportViewer

I needed to create a dynamic PDF document based on user selections for a system I created this summer. Rather than use a 3rd party tool and learn a new API, I decided to try the ReportViewer control since it had the capability of exporting to PDF (and Excel).

It worked very well except for one thing: When rendering to PDF, sporadic and unwanted page breaks appeared in the document. It took a while to stumble on the cause and cure.

I had inadvertently placed two static text fields on the control so that one overlapped the other by just a bit. In the PDF output, there were extra page breaks that made the document look wrong.

Move the text fields so they abutted to each other, and did NOT overlap, solved the problem.

I hope someone finds this useful.

Steve Wellens