Problem Generating PDFs on Web Server

[John Hickey]

On the Newsgroup, Rudi Havenga asked:

My Web Server system works fine on my own workstation to generate reports to
PDF. The problem is that when it is installed on the web server, the PDF
reports are generated in landscape and the bottom half of the reports are
cut off. Is there something that needs to be deployed to my web host?


And John Griffiths answered:

This one caught me once with ClarioNet.

The thing to watch out for here is :-

If you are running the Webserver App as a Service and it is started under the System
account (as opposed to a logged in user), then it will have no access to any printers.
This causes the reports to be formatted to the Console/Screen size  and the aspect
ratio of the screen. Hence the Landscape appearance.