EMF rendering in Reporting Services has an interesting history. When SSRS first shipped, we did not support "direct printing" from within the web interface. Customers revolted. They wanted a "Print" button on the toolbar which would provide a full featured print experience. Many other web applications don't actually do this, choosing instead to present the user with a "printable" HTML page or some other format such as PDF which they then print within their PDF reader. Rather than this workaround though, it was decided that we would implement an EMF renderer and
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