Symptom
- A report with a text string like: Configuration displays correctly in the Crystal Reports Designer.
- At runtime in a Visual Studio .NET application the string may display with a apace before the ending period: Configuration .
Environment
- SAP Crystal reports 2008
- SAP Crystal reports 2011
- SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio
Cause
- The issue has been escalated for a fix
- CR 2011 and CRVS Reference ADAPT01696311, ADAPT01696312
- CR 2008 Reference: ADAPT01727267
Resolution
- The issue has been resolved in the following product updates:
- SAP Crystal Reports 2011
- SP 2
- SAP Crystal Reports, developer version for Microsoft Visual Studio
- SP 7
- CR 2008 fix is scheduled for Fix Pack 7.1 (ETA: July 2014)
- NOTE:
- This is a resolution that is taking advantage of new undocumented APIs
- Print quality degradation will occur
- Anti-aliasing will soften the edges of fonts and other objects
- Add the following to an application config file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="businessObjects">
<sectionGroup name="crystalReports">
<section name="crystalReportViewer" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler"/>
</sectionGroup>
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>
<businessObjects>
<crystalReports>
<crystalReportViewer>
<add key="AntiAlias" value="true"/>
</crystalReportViewer>
</crystalReports>
</businessObjects></configuration>
Keywords
anti aliasing alias empty dot , KBA , BI-DEV-NET-SDK , .NET SDK / COM SDK , Bug Filed
Product
Crystal Reports 2008 V1