I'm not sure if this will help you, but on p. 546 of my book I list the registry entry to tell CR not to shrink fonts when exported to PDF (this is done by default to make sure everything fits on the PDF page).

Use RegEdit.exe to add the following registry field and give it a value of 1:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Business Objects\Suite 11.0\Crystal Reports\Export\PDF\ForceLargeFonts

Anyway, try this out and let us know if it fixes your problem as well.

Yes, the CR.NET book only applies to .NET 2003 and is out of date now. The new book "Encyclopedia" just came out and applies to CR XI/R2. I just started working on the update for CR.NET 2005 this week and that book will be out ~ Jan 2008.

Re the registry entry, the only thing that would make sense in design mode is if the printer you have chosen for the report is an Adobe PDF printer and thus CR realizes that the final destination is a PDF file. CR always customizes the print in design mode to fit the current printer driver you selected (this is to get more accurate placement on each printer). If you have a typical printer selected, then I don't know why this font problem is occurring.

Re the registry entry, you have to create it yourself. All the levels should already be there, but you need to add the "ForceLargeFonts" field and set it to 1. Let me know if this helps at all.


Edited by BrianBischof - 07 Sep 2007 at 4:10pm