PDF export

[Former Member]

Hello,

we have hundreds of reports based on Crystal Reports 9. Now we are using our CR 2008 based own viewer. The viewer loads the old report files, mappes the connection, loads the new data and exports the report to PDF.

In CR 2008 Service Pack 3 the following question for reports based on CR 10 is answered:

Enable large fonts registry setting to maintain field positions in PDF export for
migrated reports
When Crystal Reports 10 reports are migrated to Crystal Reports 2008 and then exported to PDF, the layout of
the information may not be as expected. Some fields may not have the same relative positions as in a report
exported from Crystal Reports 10.
You may need to enable the "ForceLargeFonts" registry setting to get the proper output.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Business Objects\Suite 12.0\Crystal Reports\Export\pdf]
"ForceLargerFonts"=dword:00000001
Set "ForceLargerFonts" = 1 to enable it.

Do we put the same apply to us?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Have you migrated the reports from CR9 or are they still in CR9 format?

have you applied the SP?

do you have any issues with your reports?

Assuming you are ( CR9 format , SP3 applied and no issues with the reports) then you don't need to do anything yet.

however I assume at some point you will convert the CR9 reports (some of the hundreds ) to CR 2008 ( or maybe 2011 as it's out)

at that time I hope that the migration process will do the fonts things for you, if it does not you may need this 'fix' later.

[Former Member]

Hello,

the CR9 reports only will be opened with the report viewer. The report viewer is based on CR 2008 with service pack 3 and all fixpacks up to 3.5. I think when the viewer loads the old files, it will automaticly convert into the CR 2008 format, isn't it!

The viewer can start an export to PDF process.

Thanks!