Crystal 2008 Reduces Print Size

We have noticed some strange printing results on a few of our reports in the Crystal 2008 Windows form viewer that we use in our .NET application. For example, we have a few reports that will print perfectly from the Designer, but the entire output (font, images, etc.) is reduced and centered on the page when printed through our application. This is problematic whenever the report is printed on u201Cspecialu201D stock other than plain paper, such as stock with preprinted image areas or perforations. In such cases, we have problems of misalignment. We have discovered that the reports that exhibit this behavior have 0 margins, which we are planning to fix by setting .25 inch margins.
I would like to know, however, are there any other printing issues we need to be aware of in the Crystal 2008 viewer? Does the Printer Driver Dependency article still apply to Crystal 2008, or is there a more up to date version of best practices for printing?
Thanks
Darin

Hello,
Search on ForceLargeFonts and see if that registry key helps...
PDF export
Then Export to PDF and then print the report.
Also, try the No Printer option and Dissociate check box.
There are known issues due to MS's .NET Framework and printer drivers, MS scales the print job just slightly and nothing CR can do to force it not to. We tracked it and R&D told use they can't resolve the scaling issue, it's MS doing it.
It works in CR Designer because it still uses WIN32 API's and the legacy DEVMODE(W) structure which can get to. .NET handles DEVMODE(W) in a new way which we can't control fully.
Don
Edited by: Don Williams on Jan 2, 2012 3:34 PM

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