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Feb 22, 2009 at 11:56 PM

Missing fields when printing

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We had this issue and thought we'd post the solution.

Winforms Application in VB.NET, Visual Studio 2008, Crystal Reports for Visual Studio.net (10.5.3700.0)...was also a problem with the 2005 versions (10.2.3600.0)...

When we were printing or using Print Preview, some fields on our reports were missing or formatted incorrectly . Also, it would work or not work on different machines, suggesting that it wasn't a coding problem.

Anyway, it turned out to be because of the default printer in your windows profile. Even though we were setting the printer for printing to (so that all users printed to the same printer), the actual report is generated with help from the default printer for each user. Whenever a user had there default printer as the Microsoft Office Document Writer the report didn't display correctly, once this was changed to another printer, everything worked fine!

Hopefully this helps whoever else has this problem...