Cutting and Pasting from PDF output

Hi

We have some reports that are published as PDF files. The layout of the report is fairly free, using lists within lists.

Some of our users want to cut and paste some of the data. When they do so, the order and layout of the fields does not resemble the layout of the report. Any way around this.

Note that when the report is published as mhtml or excel, cutting and pasting from these formats is much better.

thanks

Peter

No, there is no way around that. If the user is going to reuse the figues in another format then it is best to stick to Excel output. If only specific users need this then you could set them up with an subscription that has Excel output, and leave everyone else with the PDF version.

Cutting & Pasting Tasks

Has anyone else experienced serious pain when cutting and pasting tasks between packages? In that, the default way SSIS lays out the tasks is absolutely atrocious (things on top of each other, way to far apart from each other, boxes sized to small, etc.) Is there some trickery I need to do to get it to retain the layout and formatting when I paste?
Its rubbish isn't it? I also hate the way auto-format can sometimes produce a worse layout than what you started with and there's no way of CTRL-Z-ing it.

Sorry, that's not very constructive is it? I've fed this back to MS and am hoping its on their list of things for Vnext.

For the time being Greg, I think you're stuck with it.

-Jamie

P.S. CTRL-Z is something I'd like to see across the board but I dare say you need Visual Studio hooks in order to do this - so its a VS problem!