basic question

I am brand new to Crystal reports and have little exposure to vb.
Is it possible to use vb6 to run a existing .rpt file (crystal reports 8.5) and save the result in a particular format (doc/xls/pdf or any) in a particular folder from a vb application.
This is without using the crystal development environment and not using the CRAXDRT object.

I thought there are ways to do this from vb6 application.
Thanks a lot and really really appreciate your efforts.

Yes you can set the file type and the file location from within VB