Slow Crystal Reports Export to Text

Post Author: shfisher
CA Forum: General Feedback
Previously posted on Legacy Products forum: We have a fairly complex report written in Crystal 8 that displays
within seconds in the viewer. A user routinely exports this report to
a text file, and until approximately three weeks ago, the export also
took less than 30 seconds. Now the export is taking approximately
three minutes. I have seen similar posts on this topics but no
solutions. Are records queried differently for an export? What could
have caused this sudden slowdown?

Hello,
No, we don't have support having any command line options when exporting. There are likely third party tools out there that may give you the option though.
One other way may be to export it to PDF format and then use Adobe API's to add the /E option when saving the output file.
Thank you
Don

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