Few Design and Programming Questions

I have a few questions regarding reports that I haven't found answers after a
little searching. Thanks for any help!
1. I need to create a few reports with some repeating pages. For example, in
one of them I need to have a cover page, then couple content pages, then a
summary page. I need to double print the content pages. There must be a
better way to achive this than manually copy-and-paste to duplicate those
pages in the report design, is there?
2. Is there a way to embed a PDF file into the report somehow? Say, at the
end of each report, I need to include a few pages of static information. Can
I somehow have the report server to pull out a PDF file instead of putting
those text into the report design?
3. Can I include other reports in a report?
4. Is there a way to control printing of the reports after I exported them
into PDF for printing? Say, I want page 3 and 4 print on both side of the
paper. I don't think this is possible, but asking to make sure.
5. Can I control the size of the parameter input area of the report at the
top portion of the report server? I need to disply 8 input boxes. Users need
to scroll down in the parameter area to see the last 2.
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Does anyone know something about my question #2?
Or any suggestions on how to deal with complexed text/table formatting with
VS .NET 2003 report designer? It is so hard to make things look right, that's
why I wanted to just "attach" a PDF or word file for those static text.
"Xonic" wrote:
> I have a few questions regarding reports that I haven't found answers after a
> little searching. Thanks for any help!
> 1. I need to create a few reports with some repeating pages. For example, in
> one of them I need to have a cover page, then couple content pages, then a
> summary page. I need to double print the content pages. There must be a
> better way to achive this than manually copy-and-paste to duplicate those
> pages in the report design, is there?
> 2. Is there a way to embed a PDF file into the report somehow? Say, at the
> end of each report, I need to include a few pages of static information. Can
> I somehow have the report server to pull out a PDF file instead of putting
> those text into the report design?
> 3. Can I include other reports in a report?
> 4. Is there a way to control printing of the reports after I exported them
> into PDF for printing? Say, I want page 3 and 4 print on both side of the
> paper. I don't think this is possible, but asking to make sure.
> 5. Can I control the size of the parameter input area of the report at the
> top portion of the report server? I need to disply 8 input boxes. Users need
> to scroll down in the parameter area to see the last 2.
> Thanks!