Any luck with PDF in v 8.5?

[MBurns]

Export to PDF seems to only work from within the report designer. I tried running a report through ASP and then exporting from the smart viewer with no success? Am I doing something wrong?

 

[olichap]

I not too sure about running through ASP but I am assuming your web-server is not your development pc. This is what I found when trying to run a VB app on a client machine (that did not have Adobe installed by the way).

On your client machines (I would assume your web-server in your case) you must deploy the following DLL's with your app:


(these do NOT require registering)
all U2*.dll's (if you do not have any options under export)
CRXF_PDF.DLL
CRX_RTF.DLL

(these you must register)
CRTSLV.DLL
EXPORTMODELLER.DLL
ATL.DLL

If you are installing your app on a 95/98 machine the ATL.DLL must NOT be the unicode version. I found an ANSI version of this dll on Disc 2 of the Developer's Studio
(ver 3.0.8168.0). While I have not deployed my app on an NT4/2000 machine I assume you can use the Unicode version of the dll there without issue. My development pc is 2000 with that version of ATL.DLL.

Let me know if you have problems with this; I think I put everything in here.

Oliver