CR of VS 2005 always prints as image; need EMF etc

[Former Member]

After Crystal Reports XI, we had the problem that our printing software got more and more bugs and we where informed that old versions where no longer supported, so we should rewrite our software with one of the new interfaces. We choosed the .NET one.

However, our new printing frame now seems to always print using an image, i.e. the output file to the printer is just a bitmap. Even the output to Postscript printers is just that, an embedded image. While this is often no issue, some of our clients use printing to virtual printers, such as fax software, or archivation software etc. They therefore parse the output file for various informations not available if its just an image.

Printing from CR XI itself, and from our old software still based on the C interface (crpe32.dll) works fine. So clearly CR is able to produce more intelligent output formats. What can be done to enforce using them ?

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hi Randoom,

The native format of our reports are proprietary so we can't give you the info on how to decode it. And yes you are correct, an EPF Object is generated for each page and the output is basically a "picture" of the page to be printed.

Your only work around is to export the report to Excel or CSV which are text formats. The end users can then alter how they are getting the info from those file types and use the data as their needs require.

No option to use the viewer that was built into crpe32 any more, it's not supported as a report engine nor are you licensed to use it directly in an application.

If you can discribe what they were doing someone may have suggestions on which formats would be best.

Thank you

[Former Member]

Is there any solution to this at all ? Would it be resolved in Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, maybe ?

[former_member11696]

Hi Randoon,

Please clarify? You say CR XI with .NET 2005. The CR version shipped with .NET is 10.2 and .NET 2008 is 10.5

Where does CR XI come into the picture in your tests? Also you say it works in the designer, which designer are you using? The one in the .NET IDE or the full Crystal Report Designer?

Thanks again

Don

[Former Member]

I dont understand why Crystal Reports (the full version) has no trouble with this.