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1314394 - Does Crystal Reports version 9 and newer support non-unicode print drivers?

Symptom

  • Printing to non-unicode (usually dot matrix) printers results in incorrect report printing

Resolution

  • SAP Business Objects does not do explicit testing of non-unicode printer drivers
  • There is no support or escalation path for non-unicode printer drivers for Report Designer Component, Crystal Reports Designer or Crystal Rports / Business Objects / Report Application Server SDK for VS .NET
  • This includes Crystal Reports versions 9.x.x and above

See Also

  • How Printer Driver Options Affect a Report

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/a09051e9-721e-2b10-11b6-f9c65c64ef29

  • Print Feature Changes in Crystal Reports 9

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/70fd5939-281f-2b10-4589-a7199b32e61c

Keywords

KBA , BI-DEV-NET , BI Software Development Kits (SDKs) - .NET or Other , How To

Product

Crystal Reports 2008 V1 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2011 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2013 ; SAP Crystal Reports 2016 ; SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio ; SAP Crystal Reports, version for Visual Studio .NET 2008