Crystal 2 page report printing on 11x17 paper

[pessyb]

I'm not sure whether this is printer-dependent or not. I'm using Crystal 8.5 and am printing to Minolta Di550/Di450 using PCL6.

I print a report card that may optionally have teacher narrative comments on the back page (when printing duplex). I've gotten that to work nicely (prints a blank page if no comments.)

We'd like to order 11x17 paper and have the back of the paper printed with school info, like a logo. The comments should print on the left side of the 11x17 page (might sometime be blank)and the report card will print on the right side of the 11x17 page.

I'm printing on a Minolta printer that has the capability to print n-up. The report prints fine on a letter size paper 2-up, but everything is reduced. I want the two 8 1/2 x 11 pages to print right next to each other. When I select 11x17 paper, and view the report, it's previewing as a very long portrait paper. When it prints, the font is reduced.

When I export this to a pdf and print from there, there is an invisible inch or so margin around the whole report, so again the font is reduced.

I don't know whose problem this is - Crystal or the printer?

If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it.

 

[stevefah]

When exporting to PDF, Crystal Reports shrinks everything by a small margin; the fonts go down about a quarter point, and everything else is reduced in about the same proportion. In CR 10 there's a reg key to allow it not to shrink, but that doesn't work in 8.5.

 

[pessyb]

Thanks for responding. Someone else responded (on another forum) and told me the following:
You might want to look at a utility like Fine Print (

http://www.fineprint.com/products/fineprint/index.html)

It sets up as if it were a printer. You then tell it which printer to use, which paper tray, how many pages to put on a single side of the paper, whether or not to print double-sided, etc.

 

[stevefah]

That's right; you can use FinePrint or any other utility that creates PDFs as if it were a printer. That way CR doesn't reformat your font and pages.