CR of VS 2005 always prints as image; need EMF etc

After Crystal Reports XI, we had the problem that our printing software got more and more bugs and we where informed that old versions where no longer supported, so we should rewrite our software with one of the new interfaces. We choosed the .NET one.
However, our new printing frame now seems to always print using an image, i.e. the output file to the printer is just a bitmap. Even the output to Postscript printers is just that, an embedded image. While this is often no issue, some of our clients use printing to virtual printers, such as fax software, or archivation software etc. They therefore parse the output file for various informations not available if its just an image.
Printing from CR XI itself, and from our old software still based on the C interface (crpe32.dll) works fine. So clearly CR is able to produce more intelligent output formats. What can be done to enforce using them ?

Hi Randoom,
The native format of our reports are proprietary so we can't give you the info on how to decode it. And yes you are correct, an EPF Object is generated for each page and the output is basically a "picture" of the page to be printed.
Your only work around is to export the report to Excel or CSV which are text formats. The end users can then alter how they are getting the info from those file types and use the data as their needs require.
No option to use the viewer that was built into crpe32 any more, it's not supported as a report engine nor are you licensed to use it directly in an application.
If you can discribe what they were doing someone may have suggestions on which formats would be best.
Thank you

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After you have set-up all of the desired printers, open RegEdit and navigate to the above key. Right click on it, and export it. Note the file name and location you are saving to. Close RegEdit. "Edit" (Right Click) the file just exported ("Opening" the file will just import it back into the registry.). Once opened, highlight and copy the registry key and all of the registry values. Paste the key and values at the end of the file. In one of the keys change "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\" to "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\". Save and exit the file.
When imported this file will enable the "Print As Image" setting for the currently logged in user plus add the setting to the default users profile so any new users to the machine will have it enabled by default also. However, it will not add it to any other user profiles that already exist on the computer. To do this, either use a login script for domain computers or add the reg file to the "All Users Startup" folder.
It would be nice to have a setting in the deployment custimazation wizard to handle this, but for now we're stuck with enabling it the hard way.

Yes Spyla, please see this link http://www.404techsupport.com/2008/09/09/make-adobe-reader-and-adobe-acrobat-use-print-as- image-setting-by-default-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3112.
Allan, many thanks for your post, it certainly helped point me in the right direction. what I found though is that you do not need to tick the print as image box at any point during the setting up of this. All you need to do is add the registry key for whichever version of Adobe you are using for this to work. So basically. what you are saying for each instance of Adobe is regardless of whether or not the print as image is selected, the registry key is saying always print as image for the printer as specified by the hex code. I have found that for network printers, you have to include the full path i.e. \\<servername>\<printername> e.g \\testserver\printer1 and convert all of that to hex. With later versions (9 up over), they have allowed for the string name of the printer so that it is just plain text which also makes life easier.
What I do is apply this registry entry via Group Policy on a per room basis so that we only ever need to add one printer to the list. you could do this globally by adding all printers sequentially using s0, s1, s2 or t0, t1, t2 etc depending on which version you are using. The screenshot shows the registry key for 1 printer for Adobe Reader 8.
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This works a treat.
Hope this helps
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