Attn Bruce Johnson [MSFT] Re: RS do not follow PDF specification?

Bruce,
I am not sure if you read my reponse to your question in the old thread. So I am re-posting here the answer I got from the ActivePDF's support team. BTW, are there any plans at Microsoft to fix this?
Thanks.
Regards,
Alexander Korygin.
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Information from ActivePDF QA department:
A bug in SQL Server Reporting Services causes PDF's to be created with the startxref tag pointing to one byte short of the start of the xref table.
This causes Toolkit to fail to open the file because it isn't a valid PDF.
I've already submitted this issue to Engineering to see if they can come up with a fix to work around this issue until Microsoft can provide a fix for SQL Server Reporting Services, which, as I understand it is due mid this year.
You can work around this issue by opening the PDF in Acrobat, and doing a Save As, and Acrobat will repair the PDF.
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"Bruce Johnson [MSFT]" wrote:
> I did some research on this issue and there is a known bug that covers this
> issue. We would be interested in knowing what portion of the PDF
> specification you think is not being followed correctly.
>
> --
> Bruce Johnson [MSFT]
> Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
>
> "Alex Korygin" <AlexKorygin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2330E4E1-588E-4C1C-ACF0-B03378D80E97@.microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > our company produces complex PDF reports for customers. One major
> requirement is to be able to merge the reports, rendered by Reporting
> Services SP1 web service in PDF format into existing documents. The problem
> is that the ActivePDF server can not open and merge the PDFs, produced by
> RS. The ActivePDF's tech support team says there is a problem with the
> Microsoft Reporting Tool not following the PDF specification. Can someone
> from MSFT confirm / refute this?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > P.S. I am quoting the ActivePDF response here:
> > ----
> > Looking further into this, the issue is with Microsofts reporting tool.
> It's not creating the PDF properly under PDF specs. Toolkit is not designed
> to fix PDF's that do not follow PDF Specs.
> >
> > Microsoft is apparently going to fix this issue with a Service Pack in the
> future. Until then Toolkit will not be able to work with these files.
> > ----
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alex Korygin.
>
>
>I did see your earlier post. To the best of my knowledge the information you
provided is covered by an existing bug.
The fix for it will appear in a future release.
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Bruce Johnson [MSFT]
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Alex Korygin" <AlexKorygin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BCC32EEA-50A3-4FFC-828A-4B0ABDBF3698@.microsoft.com...
> Bruce,
> I am not sure if you read my reponse to your question in the old thread.
So I am re-posting here the answer I got from the ActivePDF's support team.
BTW, are there any plans at Microsoft to fix this?
> Thanks.
> Regards,
> Alexander Korygin.
>
> ----
--
> Information from ActivePDF QA department:
> A bug in SQL Server Reporting Services causes PDF's to be created with the
startxref tag pointing to one byte short of the start of the xref table.
> This causes Toolkit to fail to open the file because it isn't a valid PDF.
> I've already submitted this issue to Engineering to see if they can come
up with a fix to work around this issue until Microsoft can provide a fix
for SQL Server Reporting Services, which, as I understand it is due mid this
year.
> You can work around this issue by opening the PDF in Acrobat, and doing a
Save As, and Acrobat will repair the PDF.
> ----
--
>
> "Bruce Johnson [MSFT]" wrote:
> > I did some research on this issue and there is a known bug that covers
this
> > issue. We would be interested in knowing what portion of the PDF
> > specification you think is not being followed correctly.
> >
> > --
> > Bruce Johnson [MSFT]
> > Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
> >
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> >
> >
> > "Alex Korygin" <AlexKorygin@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:2330E4E1-588E-4C1C-ACF0-B03378D80E97@.microsoft.com...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > our company produces complex PDF reports for customers. One major
> > requirement is to be able to merge the reports, rendered by Reporting
> > Services SP1 web service in PDF format into existing documents. The
problem
> > is that the ActivePDF server can not open and merge the PDFs, produced
by
> > RS. The ActivePDF's tech support team says there is a problem with the
> > Microsoft Reporting Tool not following the PDF specification. Can
someone
> > from MSFT confirm / refute this?
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > P.S. I am quoting the ActivePDF response here:
> > > ----
> > > Looking further into this, the issue is with Microsofts reporting
tool.
> > It's not creating the PDF properly under PDF specs. Toolkit is not
designed
> > to fix PDF's that do not follow PDF Specs.
> > >
> > > Microsoft is apparently going to fix this issue with a Service Pack in
the
> > future. Until then Toolkit will not be able to work with these files.
> > > ----
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Alex Korygin.
> >
> >
> >
>
>