Reposted, originally posted in microsoft.public.vb.crystal which is not an
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We develop our applications and reports using Visual Studio 2008 with
Crystal Reports Basic for Visual Studio 2008. The same issue that's been
around for years, where you export a report to PDF and during the export
process, CR shrinks the fonts of text and field objects on the report.
Simply put, this is overly annoying. Now that we've upgraded our
application to use VS2008 (from VS2003).
When we use larger fonts, the font size appear (but upon closer inspection,
are not exactly) very close to the right size, but they are not. Not only
that, the size of the fields in question still shrink! The field width
shrinks but the font does not....so, either we have smaller font sizes that
really makes the reports look ugly, or larger font sizes with LOTS of
clipping of the text within the object.
How can we get around this to where the exported report actually looks like
the report in the designer? #1, we have to use crystal reports and #2, we
have to export to PDF....
As a side question, why hasn't Business Objects fixed this problem? It's
been a
known problem for many years...they had a hotfix which fixed it by
truncating
text....but in the designer, the text fits perfectly...so they provided a
hotfix for the hotfix which just removes the previous hotfix and the
developer is back to square 1! This is a hurdle that stinks....
Mythran