Problem with page breaks and large amount of text

What have folks here done with large amounts of text in a table with regard to page breaks? I've found that in a PDF the page break happens before the large block of text starts regardless of where it starts on the page. Even if there is 3/4 of the page empty it will always page break.

This also happens in preview mode in VS2003 as well. The weird thing is that the second page is very long, almost twice as long as the regular page. The third page is ok. This should be a 2 page report but because of the page break it's a 3 page report. I can post samples if required.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Richard.

Here's an example. To illustrate, I'm just pulling back the Article Title and the Article Details. I made the table background dark just so to distinguish it from the rest of the page.

http://www.1uvaknd.com/pagebreaktest.pdf

This is in VS2003 preview mode. Take a look at page 2. The page size is huge in comparison with the other pages.

http://www.1uvaknd.com/pagebreaktest_page1.jpg
http://www.1uvaknd.com/pagebreaktest_page2.jpg
http://www.1uvaknd.com/pagebreaktest_page3.jpg

Anyone else run into this?

Thanks

Richard.

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If you ever resolved this I would be interested in your resolution as I am having a very simular issue.

Thank You

Ed

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EdneyHolder:

I have come up with a solution/workaround. Put all the tables into a List object. Then take the large text column out of the table and place it in the list object itself. As long as the large text column is NOT in a table but in a List object - it seems to work much better.

Richard.

Problem with Page break and Visibility expression

Hi,
I am using sql server 2005 sp1 reporting services.
Currently creating a report, which contains several sub-reports held in
separate rectangles. The rectangles need page breaks to be displayed after
the rectangle. I have checked the â'Insert After Rectangleâ' page break
attribute on the General tab.
The problem is I want the page breaks on the rectangle to work when I set
the visibility attribute to false (this allows the rectangle to display). I
am setting the visibility using an expression and the text in the rectangle
displays properly, but the page breaks do not work.
Can anybody shed any light on this?
Thanks.Hello ringt,
This is a known issue in Reporting Services 2005. I am contacting to the
Product Team to check whether there is any workaround. I appreciate your
patience. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Wei Lu
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Unfortunately, I have not got any update from the product team. I
appreciate your patience.
Sincerely,
Wei Lu
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Unfortunately, the product team feedback that there is no workaround now
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Microsoft Online Community Support|||You can insert a rectangle into a rectangle, and set a page break in the
inner rectangle and visibility in the outer and paste this nested rectangles
in between subreports. It Visible expression is True, the page break will
work. if Visible expression is False , it will ignore a Page Break. I have
Master report with a few subreports which need to be separated by page
breaks and shown/hidden depending on the input parameters and this approach
worked for me.