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QlikView PDF

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:31:20 GMT

Hi,

i want to generate PDF Reports. It works fine, but the gauge chart doesn't show up correctly in the pdf. I also tried the bypass ghostscript option in the user setting, but this makes texts look ugly.

I am using PDF Creator with ghostscript. I assume that there has to be a setting in Ghostscript that has to be changed ?

Can somebody help ?

QlikView PDF

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:45:45 GMT

We are having a similar problem using DeskPDF or Adobe Acrobat . This affects only the gauge charts in a report. Any ideas anyone ?

Thanks

QlikView PDF

Qlik_Trigg — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:57:17 GMT

Folks

Can you confirm that you are using QlikView 9.0 SR2 please? I see bugs were fixed in SR2 relating to gauges printing on PDF (or more accurately print preview).

Thanks

John Trigg

Global Product Manager - QlikView Developer

QlikView PDF

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:14:29 GMT

Hi John,

I am on QVS 8.5 SR 5.

QlikView PDF

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:19:29 GMT

Hello John,

I've just upgraded from Qlikview 9 SR1 to SR2, but the problem remains. Print Previews work fine within Qlikview, but when we print to a PDF printer we get the following output:

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Qlik_Trigg — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:27:39 GMT

Thanks Fabian, OliG. As this seems to be a consistent error in both 8.5 and 9.0 I am going to pass this into the support group for review.

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Qlik_Trigg — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:13:11 GMT

So I was about to place a post on the forum last night with some suggestions I received from support when I had a crazy idea. Let me test this out. I am using CutePDF on my machine with 9.0SR2. I create a report with a bunch of gauges, all looked fine in preview, all looked fine when i generated the PDF. When i reopened the PDF I saw the same grey image for each dial build slowly on my PDF.

So I decided to apply the advice I'd received from support - here is the advice in its entirety

Here are a few options you can try to improve PDF printing:

In QV, go to Settings > User Preferences > Printing. If the "Bypass Postscript for Printing (slow)" is checked, then uncheck it and perform a print test. If the "Bypass Postscript for Printing (slow)" is unchecked, then check it and perform a print test.
Try reducing the print resolution reduced the file size and the time taken to generate the report with minimal loss of quality.
Trying another PDF printer driver that's available out there, Adobe PDF, CutePDF etc. Some seem to perform better under certain conditions and Printers.
Printing by File > Print > print to PDF sometime provide better print quality then via Reports > (Choose report).

I checked #1 - "Bypass Postscript". In my instance, this flag was unchecked. So I checked it. Re ran my report. Preview - fine, print to PDF - fine & when I now reopen the PDF I see the gauges as expected.

I've included both resulting PDFs from my tests.

Do these options resolve your problems? Let me know

Regards

John T

QlikView PDF

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:54:11 GMT

Hi John,

as i wrote in my initial post, i already tried this option. Indeed, it works for the gauge chart, but with the drawback, that all fonts turn ugly.

I thought mybe there is an option or parameter for ghostscript, so that the gauge chart is printed correctly. I tried on pdf Printer called PDF X-Change 3.0. This printer is able to priont the gauge chart correctly.

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Qlik_Trigg — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:05:51 GMT

Fabian

Have retested this and I am not seeing the same issues with the CutePDF driver that I am using. Can you forward a copy (scrambled?) of your report that shows the text inthe PDF?

QlikView PDF

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:41:16 GMT

Hi John,

i finally found some time to deal with the issue again.

Here are 2 Files with Test date.

1. With "bypass" option activatet. --> Ugly Fonts

2. Without Bypass -> Gauge and funnel not displayed correctly.

I did the pdf conversion with pdf creator and ghostscript 8.54.

I also tried some other PDF Converters, including the one from QlikView with the same result.

QlikView PDF

suniljain — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:26:07 GMT

Dear Friend,

suppose I have 50 chart in 5 different sheet and I want to export all 50 chart in single PDF .

can anyone guide me how it is possible ?.

QlikView PDF

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:45:47 GMT

Has anyone found a solution to this problem? I'm using SR1. Would upgrading make a difference?

QlikView PDF

Mon, 16 May 2011 14:25:35 GMT

Same issue with 9.0 SR2 : Gauge charts doesn't show correctly when printing a pdf report using CutePDF.

Has anyone found a solution?

QlikView PDF

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:12:11 GMT

Hi,

I'm hitting this problem in QV 10.0 SR1. Does anyone have a solution?

Thanks
Nick

Re: QlikView PDF

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:31:04 GMT

We had this problem in combination: Windows 7 client (using IE browser and Access Point), QV 10 server, PDF-XChange 3.0 PDF writer in client. Solution: Updated PDF-writer to PDF-XChange 4.0 Lite

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martinalfalaval — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:27:51 GMT

Has anybody found a freeware PDF writer that get's the gauges right?