How to print the details section of the crystal report?

Hello World!


I have reports (receipts, invoices, etc) created in crystal report and they are working fine, but my client has a pre-printed reports and he wants all the details of the report to be printed on his pre-printed reports and viewing of reports in the application should be exactly with the printed reports. I am thinking about Surpass property of my report's boxes, lines, etc. but I don't this is not the solution. Is it possible for the crystal report to hide the boxes and lines during printing? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! : )



Rey Sean

Which version of Crystal?

In 8.5 at least, it is not possible to suppress boxes, lines etc based on a forumla.

The easiest way to work with pre-printed forms is to scan the paper into a graphic file. Use the graphic as an underlay to the report.

In Crystal, place this graphic in the PageHeader section (if it is a full page document). In the Section Expert, set the PageHeader's option to "Underlay Following Sections". This forces the Group and/or Detail sections to begin printing at the top of the PageHeader section instead of after the PageHeader section.

Turn off the "Snap to Grid" option so you have finer control over the placement of the report objects.

Once you have everything lined up correctly you need to suppress the PageHeader when printing but not when previewing the report. This has to be done via code (or a report parameter or formula) as there is no internal option which indicates if the user is printing or previewing the report.