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1551641 - Fax not being sent when using Crystal Reports and Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 Fax driver in a VS .NET application

Symptom

  • Printing to Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 Microsoft Fax driver
  • After the Send button is clicked, the fax is not being sent out

Environment

  • Crystal reports for Visual Studio
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 2008

Reproducing the Issue

  • Print a report or any otter document spanning more than one page to Microsoft Fax driver

Resolution

  • Use a fax driver that supports muti-page documents
  • Use one page documents only

This issue was escalated in ADAPT01506883 and R&D determined this was a limitation in the .NET framework and we cannot fix the issue.

NEW UPDATE:

  • See attached fax print test application. This app does not use any CR runtime and it fails also
  • If you require this to work please send attached test application to Microsoft to see if they can provide a solution.
  • The other option is to use a third party Fax program as a work around.

Keywords

Crystal Reports, Fax, MS Fax, corrupted tif file , KBA , BI-DEV-NET , BI Software Development Kits (SDKs) - .NET or Other , How To

Product

Crystal Reports 2008 V1 ; SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio

Attachments

FaxPrinter.zip