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Topic: Optimize for Screen Posted: 06 Mar 2012 at 7:29am
I'm creating a Dashboard-like report that will be displayed on a 28" monitor. I have a lot of room to work with. My vision is to embed 6 to 8 sub-reports (charts only) into the main report and have it refresh on the screen every 20 minutes. My question is......
How do I get Crystal reports to allow for 24" X 14" on the screen. The best I've been able to do is create a custom size on a network printer but the biggest it can do is 17 X 11. Crystal is only allowing me to setup print sizes based on my configured printers. Is there some way of just making Crystal Reports setup any print dimension that I want?
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Posted: 06 Mar 2012 at 8:16am
I tried that. I'm using XI R2. I can type in any size I want but the design view does expand beyond the printers page size and I can't drag object past a certain point.
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Posted: 07 Mar 2012 at 8:46am
So my work around is what a lot of people have done. I downloaded the drivers (full setup install) for the HP DesignJet 510 (42" model). The nice thing is that when you install the plotter software you can choose "Connected to File" as a setup option (as opposed to Network or Local connection). So I configured my "plotter" as connected to file and made it the default printer and launched Crystal. I can make this report page ridiculously big now. Works like a champ.
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