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CR:NET problem with laser printers

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madcrow74

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Hi,
As per subject, when i print a report, all the non-bold characters are misprinted (random character, mostly strange symbols).
This doesn't happen when printing on inkjet printers...

Can anyone help me? it's very urgent :-( (i have only one small inkjet p. for 100 users, and many laser around...)

Ty
 
Crystal isn't WISYWIG, it's quite common to find that reports come out diffrenetly on printers than on the screen, and not always the same on different printer types.

Do a test report with all of the fonts you have available on the screen, text that includes bolded and any other special features you use. Then ty printing it on the different printer types and see what comes out. With luck this will identify a font that doesn't have this problem.

Madawc Williams
East Anglia, Great Britain
 
Are they crazy????
U mean that for every printer i plan to use, i have to make a test with ALL fonts i have?
How can i do this if i don't know what printer they will use?

pity me.... :-(
 
Deliver the report as a PDF - then it will print the same on all printers.
 
Another passage before printing? they will kill me if i try to propose it to them...

BTW another drawback is that exporting to PDF will decrease all my image's resolution, and it will reformat and cut to the right border all of the text inside....
 
OK, let's go back to the beginning...

1.) How are you delivering the reports to your 100 users? Does everyone have Crystal Reports, Crystal Enterprise access, or are you delivering them through an application?

2.) What versions of CR, CE are you using?

3.) Are your "Hot Fixes" current?

4.) Are you using ONLY Microsoft TrueType Fonts (eg. Arial) in your reports?

5.) What "image" content does your report contain that would lose resolution by going to PDF?

 
:-)

1) i'm developing an application in C# and CR.NET with VisualStudio 2003, creating a DataSet from a MS SQL database. After i create an instance of a new ReportDocument (crd) then

crd.Load("myreport.rpt")
crd.SetDataSource(myDataSet)

2) CR.NET on VS.NET 2003 Italian

3) have installed crnet11win_en.zip

4)I use only Arial, with every type of format. It prints only in bold.

5)Bitmaps

Another question: why i can't draw Line and Box objects on an imported image, but they go always under it?

Ty for your time :-)
 
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