PDF Export for Report with Group

[tpontow]

Hello Stimulsoft-Team,

when exporting a report to PDF which has a Group the small + /- Icons / images are not exported. There is a space instead.

Is it possible to

1. Show the small Icon / image in the PDF file or
2 at least get rid of the white space in the PDF where the + / - Images uesd to be?

Thanks and Kind regards
Thorsten Pontow

[Lech Kulikowski]

Hello,

> 1. Show the small Icon / image in the PDF file or

We do not see the point, because this feature in pdf is impossible to implement, and that icon will only occur extra questions from the user.

> 2 at least get rid of the white space in the PDF where the + / - Images uesd to be?

We do not create an empty place, but you yourself are the design of the report.
as an option - change the report in the event before export (move the necessary components to the left).

Thank you.

[tpontow]

Thanks Lech,

that helped me to solve my Problem!

I overwrote OnExporting() and OnExported() i my own StiReport-Subclass as follows:

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protected override void OnExporting(StiExportEventArgs e)
        {
            m_marginAdjustedComponents = new List<string>();
            foreach (StiPage renderedPage in RenderedPages)
            {
                foreach (StiComponent renderedPageComponent in renderedPage.Components)
                {
                    if (renderedPageComponent is StiText textComponent && textComponent.Name.EndsWith("groupHeaderBandText"))
                    {
                        textComponent.Margins.Left = 1;
                        m_marginAdjustedComponents.Add(textComponent.Name);
                        
                    }
                }

            }

            base.OnExporting(e);

        }

        protected override void OnExported(StiExportEventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnExported(e);

            foreach (StiPage renderedPage in RenderedPages)
            {
                foreach (StiComponent renderedPageComponent in renderedPage.Components)
                {
                    if (renderedPageComponent is StiText textComponent && m_marginAdjustedComponents.Contains(textComponent.Name))
                    {
                        textComponent.Margins.Left = 12;
                        m_marginAdjustedComponents.Remove(textComponent.Name);

                    }
                }

            }
        }

Greetings
Thorsten

[Edward]

Hi Thorsten,

Amazing, it really is. Easy and efficient solution. Thank you for sharing your approach and the code snippet with the community, it will definitely help someone.

Kind Regards,
Edward