Major difference between font size in 2024.4.3 version compare to 2020.2.3

[fghiggi]

I'm updating the version of Stimulsoft in our applications, but I noticed a significant difference in the way the letters are displayed, which ends up breaking all the reports we have in our project.

stimulsoft 2020



stimulsoft 2024



As you can see, the difference is striking. What is the explanation for this? Is there a way to fix it?

I’m leaving a link here for a sample project, where the MRT and the printed PDF results are available. I’m also attaching the PDFs and the sample MRT file.

https://gitlab.com/fghiggi/stimulsoft-font-example

[Lech Kulikowski]

Hello,

The difference is that this is NetCore, in 2020 export was not configured yet and output was not quite right, higher than it should be.
Now in WinForms and in the NetCore versions the text is output in the same way and correctly.

You can return old behavior with the following option:
Stimulsoft.Drawing.Graphics.GraphicsEngine = Stimulsoft.Drawing.GraphicsEngine.Gdi

Thank you.

[fghiggi]

so i try to change to GDI

Code: Select all

            Stimulsoft.Drawing.Graphics.GraphicsEngine = Stimulsoft.Drawing.GraphicsEngine.Gdi;
            var reportPath = StiNetCoreHelper.MapPath(this, "Reports/Report.mrt");
            var report = new StiReport();

and the result was

Stimulsoft 2024.4.3



Stimulsoft 2020.2.3



still wrong, as you can see

[Lech Kulikowski]

Hello,

1. The option switches to GDI. the most noticeable thing is that the text width will be the same as before.
This option should be set not before loading the report, but at the very beginning of the application, before fonts are loaded.

2. You have VertAlign=Bottom on the HeaderBand of the textboxes in the report.
It used to be wrong in NetCore when exporting to pdf, the text was displayed higher than necessary and appeared as if in the middle of the band.
Now the height alignment works correctly, and the text is pressed to the bottom edge of the header.
On other lines, the alignment is also slightly different, but almost imperceptible.

W didn't see any other problems in the report.

Thank you.