Question about printing an image/control Using Report Generator

The attached VI is an example of creating a report from a control or image. My problem is that when the control (xy graph) gets too large in the vertical direction it clips the image but, the horizontal is scaled to the width of the report.
First question is why does it scale in the horizontal and not the vertical? See the Test.pdf for what I am talking about.
Second, is it possible to control this behavior (edit/create an alternate for the Append Control Image to report or the Report VI's)?
I have found many work around but ultimately it comes back to; why automatically scale one direction but not the other?
For this application I don't mind that the graph is scaled down in the horizontal I just wish it would do the same thing in the vertical axis (I don't even want it to be a 1 to 1 zoom ratio, just fill the avalible report space).
Thoughts?
Attachments:
Print XY Graph TEST.vi ‏55 KB
Test.pdf ‏217 KB

I agree all of the workarounds have limitations. One workaround, that I'm not sure if you have tried yet is change the numeric constant from 50 to 20 (I attached a picture showing which constant I am talking about). This seems to fix the issue just because the image never becomes larger than the report page itself.
Let me know if that option creates any problems for you as well.
Kevin S
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Attachments:
Block Diagram.PNG ‏29 KB

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