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Exporting a SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 Report Directly to PDF or Excel
Exporting a SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS) Report Directly to PDF/Excel is a handy way of generating high quality reports without being stuck to using the ReportViewer interface. Sometimes the ReportViewer interface is an unnecessary step, but other times the ReportViewer won't render correctly even though the underlying report is correct. This is especially true when your audience might use Firefox or Safari (or anything other than IE), since the ReportViewer control almost never outputs a readable report. Of course it would be nice to just have a button on your page that generates a PDF or Excel file in any browser, and uses a SSRS back-end to do all of the report creating and heavy lifting.