How to design the page in landscape mode... 1

[udayit55]

Hi,

I'm tryng to design a report and it doesnt fit in the regular size...what do i do to change the page settings to landscape while desiginging....coz i have more columns....and comparatively less number of columns.

Please Help and your help is sincerely appreciated.

Uday.

 

[lbass]

Depends upon your version--it's either in page setup or in printer setup under file. You'll see page orientation->landscape.

It's worth spending some time just exploring the various dropdowns and screens in CR in order to familiarize yourself.

-LB

 

[Somnium]

I used to constantly run out of horizontal real estate in Crystal Reports because I was limited by the paper dimensions available on our network printers. Most of our printers use legal size paper and a few use 14"x17", so I was limited to 17" report widths when I flipped the orientation to landscape. More than a nuisance when using data table with over 100 fields each. Eventually I asked one of our printer guys for suggestions. He set up a dummy print queue on our print server using a driver for a 54"x76" plotter. After installing the new print queue on my workstation, I now have a maximum report width of 76". You might investigate doing something similar.

 

[Tatertot45]

I thought you might like to know this little tidbit, since you are creating wide real estate reports. I was using Crystal 9 for some time. If you place a field in the report that is off the page and refresh, Crystal will likely crash. I ahve talked to quite a few people and that is a common bug. Not sure if it is isolated to CR9, but thought you might like to know.

Later all...

 

[Madawc]

Tatertot45, your comment is interesting but does not belong in this thread. Why not post it as an 'information' thread? With a sensible title it would be something that SEARCH could pick up.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10