Font shrinks when exported to PDF, again.

Post Author: Ron Quest
CA Forum: Exporting
I recently ported my application from classical asp to asp.net and upgraded Crystal Reports XI to Release 2 (6/4/2007 files). The KBase c2019491 article resolved the font scaling issue I was having with my old application but doesn't work with my dot-net version. I added the ForceLargerFont=1 under the Suite 11.5 keys which did fix the scaling when I export from the Crystal Report Designer but not when a PDF is created through CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.Export().
Anybody find any other tricks?

Post Author: Ron Quest
CA Forum: Exporting
Is it that nobody is using this function? ... or just not having this problem? ... or gave up on fixing it?
Anybody?

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