Report preview differs from Execution time report. Crystal .Net

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Post Author: rammsess

CA Forum: General

Hi all.

I have a problem using Crystal Reports 2005, from a Visual Basic application in Visual Studio 2005.

Iu2019m designing some reports, with SQL Server Stored Procedures as data sources. When I preview the reports from Visual Studio, the reports are showing exactly like Iu2019ve designed it, but when I run the reports in execution time, from the compiled application, the reports are not showing well. Some fields in the detail section appear in different positions from original.

I have also a database field, money, which shows data from other database field, nvarchar.

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I donu2019t know if itu2019s referred to any temporal data or something like that. Remember that from preview report in .Net I can see the correct report.

Thanks.

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Post Author: quafto

CA Forum: General

The report will not look exactly the same because it is using a different viewer control. The one you are previewing with in the Visual Studio designer is actually the old ActiveX viewer control used in the RDC. The best you can likely get is to make sure to design the report with "No printer" selected. This will ensure you are using generic printer drivers and it will render the report more accurately. The only downside there is you may not have uncommon paper sizes available.

You can find the "no printer" setting in the page or printer options.