Support for direct printing in SAP Crystal runtime for .NET Framework

[dave_smith2]

As Microsoft is planning to deprecate IE in favor of the Edge browser and the current iterations of the SAP Crystal runtimes for .NET provide only an ActiveX control for direct printing from the .NET viewer, are there any plans by SAP to support direct printing to a printer (without first having to export to PDF) in future service packs of the runtime?

We are currently using SP 24, but it does not appear any of the newer service packs (we checked through SP 30) support direct printing.

Thanks for any information that is provided.

[dave_smith2 · Accepted solution]

That is unfortunate. This is becoming a big issue for many users.

[former_member11696]

Hi Dave,

I agree but due to WEB security, sending files to a users Printer just has too many open holes for hackers to get into using code injection or cross site scripting etc....

ActiveX was the only way to do it but as noted no one supports ActiveX plug-ins any more... for the same reasons as above...

Don

[former_member11696]

Hi Dave,

Unfortunately it's the nature of ActiveX, it gets sent to the Users PC.

No one else has the ability to print directly and we have no plans to be able to either, huge security issues doing that...

Exporting is your only option for a WEB app.

Don