Oracle Reports - PDF layout

Hi,
I've just 2 questions:
1 - when i run a Report from my Report Builder client (Oracle Developer Suite) to produce a PDF report file, the report have just 1 page. When I call the same report via URL (http://<ip adress>:<port>/reports/rwservlet?<report>&[parameters]) for the same output the PDF report file take some information on the second page!!!
It seems to be a different setting of the pagesize, is it possibile?
2 - when i design my report every LINE of my fields on the layout seems to be aligned to others, but when i run a Report to produce a PDF report file Acrobat Reader letme see a kind of disalignment at different percentage of Zoom.
For example at 100% the report seems to be disaligned but at 75% or 131% everything seems to be correct!!!
Could it be a rendering problem of Adobe (Acrobat Reader) ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Bye!!!
Edited by: Huge10 on 3-mar-2011 3.16

No-one have never seen these aspects? :-(
Edited by: Huge10 on 9-mar-2011 6.56

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