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Our tech staff is having a difficult time printing Crystal Reports in Visual Basic. Where do they begin to find information about this? It is seemingly difficult to get an answer to this question as they have been trying for quite some time. Anyone out there work with Crystal Reports? If so, a little boost would be most helpful. Also, some resources dealing with Crystal Reports and how they work would be great!

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Some web pages:
http://support.seagatesoftware.com/homepage/
or
http://support.seagatesoftware.com/education/tutorials.asp

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Are you using the free version that came with VB 5.0? If so, you will not be able to do things like select a printer other than the user default. We did a work around using C++ and writing the the CRP32.dll (not the OCX) to get printer selection to work. The other option is to get the latest version, it is not terribly expensive (under $1000) and I think (but I’m not sure) most of the print issues have been resolved.

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If you have official version of crystal report. you can use PE (Printer Engine)commands.

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Is the problem with Chrystal Reports – or youe Data Model???

I build GUIs with Access + VB to accedd data on any ODBC compliant database (mainframe or PC) and the report generator within Access is a “power version” of Crystal Reports where the original Access 1.0 & 1.5 report Generator was built by Crystal Reports. Now all of the database connectivity you MUST do manually in Crystal Reports is autoated in Access (and therefore Muchhhhhhhh FASTER). Of course if the underlying data structureis not Normalized and/or modeled properly nothing is going to work. If your data IS modeled properly I suggest building a GUI or two with Access, connect it to ANY ODBC database product you currently use and give that combination a try. Try it – You’ll like it! Don Quigg

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I don’t know if this what you are looking for but with VB6 you don’t need to use Crystal reports anymore.
The new version can incorporate the reporting in the compiled .exe . By doing this all you will need to copy/install is the one exe file. This is also good because then you can configure a configure button that is WYSIWYG

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