ReportViewer Font issue

Hey Everyone,

I will admit to being a complete newbie when it comes to .net for the web, (Plus I'm not really a developer, Just learning as I go along)

Anyway, Ive done some windows app development (mostly in Foxpro...Don't laugh, it works :) ) but this web stuff has me about ready to jump out a window

I built a web application in Visual Studio 2005, The application takes in a query string from the URL (default.aspx string=blah) and uses that to filter an objectdatasource that is bound to a localreport. This report is supposed to print some barcode lables *(using a code 39 barcode font)*

Everything works great on my local machine, (View in browser from within VS) I can open the page, pass it the string I want to search for and the report generates, I can choose export to excel OR pdf and the report prints, barcodes and all.

BUT when I go to publish this to a server is when all heck breaks loose. I publish the website, and from that point forward nothign works like it should, it keeps telling me my report definition is invalid, When I look, the report.rdlc I created that is on the server is only 86 bytes, but the report on my local machine is much bigger (75k or so)

so I copied in the .rdlc file from my local machine to the server and then the report generated Problem solved I thought....WRONG.! when I choose export to excel it works, but when I export to PDF it exports..but none of the barcodes show up, And to add further insult to injury, it doesn't even work in excel unless the LOCAL machine has the BarCode Fonts installed. (I thought this all rendered at the server or soemthing) The Webserver is running on Windows 2003 server with the .net framework 2.0.50727 and the latest reportwriter redistributable installed

so if someone could help me before I have a stroke here, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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