Text Enterpretation Wierdness

[jschodde]

I have Crystal Reports 8.5 installed on my machine. I also have an application that uses the 9.x run time engine (i.e. files under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.0\bin)

I have an 8.5 report with a memo field with Text Enterpretation set as HTML. The data only has simple tags like <b></b> for bold and <u></u> for underline.

I have two copies of the crpe32.dll on my machine:

1) c:\winnt\system32\crpt32.dll - version 8.5.0.217

2) C:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.0\bin\crpe32.dll - version 9.2.0.448

If I rename the first one (to hide it), the report prints showing the HTML tags (bad). If I unhide it, it prints the bold and underline words just fine (good).

Going forward, my clients won't have the same configuration that I do. They will only have the 9.0 runtime (i.e files under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Crystal Decisions\2.0\bin)

My question is, how the heck do I make this 8.5 report print correctly in 9.0 runtime?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[synapsevampire]

CR 8.5 and CR 9 can coexist on your machine.

You neglected to share the most bit of information, which is how are you running the report, from your CR 8.5 app or the CR 9 runtime app?

If the latter, it should work fine, if the former, then everything makes sense.

These are different, unrelated environments.

Try calling the report from the CR 9 environment (app), and you'll see that it works fine.

-k

 

[jschodde]

synapsevampire,
Thanks for the reply. I tired running the report using the application which utilizes the 9 runtime and it was showing the HTML tags.

I've since downgraded that application to an earlier version which comes with the 8.x runtime and it works fine now.

I'll have to figure this one out when I have some more time (on a deadline). For now I'm going with the 8.x runtime.

Thanks,
Jeff