WYSIWYG In Preview and Designer
Printed From: Crystal Reports Book
Category: Crystal Reports 9 through 2020
Forum Name: Report Design
Forum Discription: The best way to design a report and problems you have encountered
URL: http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6087
Printed Date: 28 Apr 2024 at 9:27am
Topic: WYSIWYG In Preview and Designer
Posted By: scotthereld
Subject: WYSIWYG In Preview and Designer
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2009 at 10:15am
|
Hello, New to this site, but 2 yrs of CR .NET (XI R2) development. Question is : How to get the Preview and Designer Display to resemble the final output. We use a C# application to build a flat dataset (ADO.NET XML) that is used to generate the report. When designing the report containing 4-5 paragraphs of hard coded text, the text boxes the hold the text NEED to be wider than the page in order for them to be rendered properly with call in VS2005;"rpt.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, LocalPDF)". The PDFs are fine, but debugging when the screen display and preview look all messed up ... |
Replies:
Posted By: hilfy
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2009 at 1:52pm
|
I've not run into this issue with PDF exports. What fonts are you using? Are they translating into a different font on export? In the page setup for the report, do you have it set to "No Printer (optimize for screen display)"?
Other than that, there is no way of really controlling the format of the export.
-Dell ------------- Proviti, Data & Analytics Practice http://www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics - www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics |
Posted By: scotthereld
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2009 at 2:51pm
|
Thank you for the reply ... I do have the "No Printer (optimize for screen display)" set. The crazy thing is that the PDF output is in Ariel 9 (perfect, I think so...)as planned, the screen is some other font, like Ariel Narrow 10 point. This makes the text in the report display (and the output in "Preview" display) all run together.... ... It's not the output that is the problem, it's the designing and preview of the results... I have to run the App to the bitter end to see whether I have the text properly spaced, etc ... |
Posted By: hilfy
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2009 at 6:42am
|
Is this a web app or a WinForms app?
-Dell ------------- Proviti, Data & Analytics Practice http://www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics - www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics |
Posted By: scotthereld
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2009 at 7:26am
|
I'ts a WinForms app....but the issue lies in the C.R. designer. The PDF output, as I mentioned is exactly what we want, in the design / report creating phase. I would have thought that the C.R. design display or at least the "Preview" would be WYSIWYG ..... it's not. The paragraphs of text, when 'Previewed' run off the page past the right margin, the overlap graphics, and even look like a different point size.....like I said .. crazy ! |
Posted By: hilfy
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2009 at 8:39am
|
Actually, we're saying the same thing, just coming at it from different directions. The designer and viewer ARE WYSIWYG, it's the export that's not. So, but configuring to get the export to work correctly, what you actually see on the screen is not what you want. What you see in the designer/viewer is formatted for Crystal and for printing. It "knows" nothing about PDF format.-Dell ------------- Proviti, Data & Analytics Practice http://www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics - www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics |
Posted By: scotthereld
Date Posted: 20 Apr 2009 at 10:13am
|
Understood ...However, if the report were to look like what I see on the screen, it'd be a mess ! ... The text paragraphs are being displayed to the right of the right margin (off the page) on my screen in the Designer mode. The HTML preview simply cuts the data off and is NOT representative of the actual output. "What I see is no where near what i get" ..... Thank you for your input ... |
Posted By: fogliluc
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 6:54am
|
Hi all , I have the same problem !!! Someone has fix the problem ??? |
Posted By: hilfy
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 7:00am
|
There is no real fix - the issue is in the export functionality which has always had formatting problems.
-Dell ------------- Proviti, Data & Analytics Practice http://www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics - www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics |
Posted By: fogliluc
Date Posted: 11 May 2009 at 7:16am
|
How i can solve it !!! Can i disable the export functionality !!! this is an example ... http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=immaginefct.jpg">  |
Posted By: fogliluc
Date Posted: 12 May 2009 at 1:27am
| Someone have a solution !!! |
Posted By: fogliluc
Date Posted: 15 May 2009 at 1:25am
| ??? |
Posted By: hilfy
Date Posted: 15 May 2009 at 9:38am
|
There is no "solution" - it is what it is.
-Dell ------------- Proviti, Data & Analytics Practice http://www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics - www.protiviti.com/US-en/data-management-advanced-analytics |
Posted By: fogliluc
Date Posted: 21 May 2009 at 5:53am
|
I know that there is no solution ,but can i solve it. I create new report ???? I create new project ??? I add new default printer ??? bye |