Linked Ole Object with MS Word has bad resloution / invalid fonts

Post Author: Winfried Boennhoff
CA Forum: .NET
Environment: .Net 2003 Viewer with external .rpt created by CR XI
As result I get a bad resolution of the word document and the original fonts are not supported, I tried all common fonts. The font used by CR seems to be default font with a very bad resolution.
The same effects not only with MS word, although with an linked PDF or any image. All have a very bad resolution.
Is this a known Problem? Any Idea?

Post Author: fwinter
CA Forum: .NET
We have the same problem. A page footer generated in Word, embedded in a CR-Report shows in the report viewer with overlapping characters. This is "a known limitation" we were told. Not really a problem, but when exported to PDF, the PDF also shows the overlapping characters and prints with overlapping characters as well. This is our problem!We've tried different fonts, different font- an pagesizes in Word, the "can grow" checkbox etc. We believe, the result is affected by the printer driver but cannot really find a way, to avoid the problem and get a clear print at all of our customers.Anyone figured out how to solve the problem? CA Support unfortunatly couldn't help We are using CR Merge Moduls XI R2 in our Report Viewer, Word 2003, Problem appears on local machines as well as on Citrix.

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