Bug 144585 render a report using ReportRunner, HTML and PDF reports are different
steps to reproduce: - render attached report using ReportRunner from Windows command line genReport -m render -o Sample(excludelib)50.html -f html -p 50 -l "en" Sample(excludelib).rptdocument genReport -m render -o Sample(excludelib)50.pdf -f pdf -p 50 -l "en" Sample(excludelib).rptdocument expected behavior: - HTML and PDF reports are same actual behavior: - they were different, pdf report had extra table header in 1st page
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/api/impl/RenderTask.java
if ( "pdf".equalsIgnoreCase( format ) ) 
			{
				IReportExecutor executor = new ReportPageReader(
						executionContext, pageSequences, false );
				executor = new LocalizedReportExecutor( executionContext,
						executor );
				executionContext.setExecutor( executor );
				initializeContentEmitter( emitter, executor );
				IReportLayoutEngine layoutEngine = LayoutEngineFactory
						.createLayoutEngine( format );
				OnPageBreakLayoutPageHandle handle = new OnPageBreakLayoutPageHandle( executionContext );
				layoutEngine.setPageHandler( handle );
				startRender( );
				layoutEngine.layout( executor, emitter, true );
				closeRender( );
				executor.close( );
			}
			else
			{
				IReportExecutor executor = new ReportExecutor(
						executionContext, reportDesign, null );
				executor = new LocalizedReportExecutor( executionContext,
						executor );
				executionContext.setExecutor( executor );
				initializeContentEmitter( emitter, executor );
				ReportContentLoader loader = new ReportContentLoader(
						executionContext );
				startRender( );
				loader.loadPageRange( pageSequences, bodyOnly, emitter );
				closeRender( );