Exporting .rpt to .pdf

Post Author: CEsql
CA Forum: Exporting
Hello,
Anyone know how to create bookmarks automatically when exporting a Crystal Report to PDF? I'm able to export the report just fine, but the bookmarks are missing. I have to manually create them each time. Isn't there an easier way? I'm using CR 10 and Adobe 6.0 Professional

Post Author: Amir
CA Forum: Exporting
Not sure if this can be done in designer however if you publish the report to BO XI (my version is R2), you can select PDF format with option of creating bookmarks from group tree of the report.

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1332907 - Report being exported to PDF format using the Crystal Reports for Eclipse 1.x runtime, errors with the exception: PdfExporter: caught Exception in PDFFormatter.finalizeFormatJob
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Symptom
Attempting to export a report to Adobe PDF format using the Crystal Reports for Eclipse 1.x runtime results in an exception.
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