Crystal Reporter sets Orientation

Question

Hi Experts,
My client has an issue is with a Crystal Report.  The issue is this:
Client wants to print labels using an A4 sheet of Labels.  He has created the report layout.  Let us say that the report box is 7cm wide x 4 cm tall.
When setting the report size, Crystal automatically sets the page orientation to landscape, purely because the report box is wider than it is tall.  This is not wanted!
The labels need to be printed on portrait orientated paper.  The label size is easily narrow enough to print on portrait orientated paper but Crystal automatically decides that the orientation should be landscape.
Is there any way around this?  We have found that amending the printer properties (setting it to portrait) is a workaround but this would need to be done for every print which is time consuming.
Greig

Answer 1

Hi Greig,
You may find more thread to complain the same problem.  CR is too smart in this orientation matter.  It won't allow portrait if the width is more than height.  The workaround is:  add a non visible text box to make the frame like normal, i.e. Height > Width.
Thanks,
Gordon