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shamrock31
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Quote shamrock31 Replybullet Topic: 2 sided report
    Posted: 21 Jul 2011 at 7:03am
Hi, I'm new to the forum so thought I would say hello, and post a quick question.

I have a report built currentlyin Crystal Reports XI release 2. My client now wants that report to be printed two sided, first side English, back side French. The back side does not require any information be printed to it, other then the French template itself. The issue is that I only have the French side in a PDF document, the English side is all built and currently working as per design.

Is there a way to import a PDF file into a Crystal Report? I know this is probably a novice question, and it probably is not possible....just looking for the quickest and easiest way of creating this report.

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Quote CircleD Replybullet Posted: 21 Jul 2011 at 12:30pm
From the help files in 2008 but it should be similar:

Using Crystal Reports, you can import a formatted, text-based object from an existing file onto your report.

To import text-based objects from a file

  1. Double-click the text-based object you want to format to put it in edit mode, then right-click it to bring up the shortcut menu.
  2. On the shortcut menu, click Insert from file.
  3. In the Open dialog box that appears, select the file in which your text-based object is stored, then click Open.
    The object is imported from the file into the text object on your report.


Place a text object and format it to "Can Grow" and it should work.



Edited by CircleD - 21 Jul 2011 at 12:34pm
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Quote IdoMillet Replybullet Posted: 21 Jul 2011 at 1:10pm
As long as the pdf file is a single page, you can insert OLE object and embed it in the report.

If you are willing to deliver the end result as pdf, another option is to use a 3rd-party tool that can automate the process of exporting a report to pdf and inserting a back page (your French pdf) for all pages in the resulting pdf. One of the 3rd-party desktop report schedulers listed at http://kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html provides that functionality.
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