RtReports 5.0 printing updates
- Last UpdatedAug 15, 2023
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RtReports 5.0 uses an updated engine to render report PDFs. This may result in minor formatting differences when comparing reports printed with RtReports 5.0 to reports printed with previous versions of RtReports.
When comparing reports generated with RtReports 5.0 versus reports printed with previous RtReports versions, the majority of formatting differences can be summed up as:
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Blank pages will not be removed
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Page numbers may differ
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Page breaks across tables will be in different locations
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Table cell sizing/padding may be updated
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Header/footer content size will differ
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Fonts may be darker under certain circumstances
Example 1: When printing a particular report template against the same batch in older versions of RtReports and RtReports 5.0, the page header in RtReports 4.2 (below left) is larger compared to the page header in RtReports 5.0 (below right).

Example 2: The same report template has updated table sizing and table breaks when compared in RtReports 4.2 (below left) and RtReports 5.0 (below right).
