How to make Crystal Reports Page Width Larger During Design of .rpt

Question

I\'m looking for a method to resize the page width Crystal Reports gives me to place fields in my .rpt file.

So far I have discovered if I right click on the report,

Answer 1

1. Go to Printers and Faxes
2. Select Printer
3. Go To File / Server Properties
4. Go To Click New Form
5. Go To New Form -- > Write a Name of PaperSize
6. Go To New Form -- > Write a Name of PaperSize
7. Go To measurements Unit -- > Set Paper Size Wdith and Hight , Margin
8. Click OK
9. Goto Crystal Report - > Page Setup
10. Page options - > Selecte your new created papper Size

Answer 2

I realize that this is a very old topic and the question is about design mode but since this question keeps coming up in my Google searches, I expect that this may help someone. So, I just wanted to add that programmatically, this can be done without a dummy printer like this:

var repDoc = new ReportDocument();
repDoc.Load(rpt_path);

ISCDReportClientDocument clientDoc = repDoc.ReportClientDocument;
clientDoc.PrintOutputController.ModifyUserPaperSize(repDoc.PrintOptions.PageContentHeight, repDoc.PrintOptions.PageContentWidth * 2);

Answer 3

Found it: http://www.crystalreportsbook.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=754

Basically add a dummy printer to your system that can take a larger paper size and select that as your printer for the report.

Answer 4

use the microsoft xps document writer as your dummy printer, and create a new form from server properties as the post above me states.

Answer 5

I set the printer to something absurdly wide and use that. ben's link is the right idea.

Answer 6

1. By changing your reports paper size. Make it to legal/letter etc will increase width of your reports so that you can easily display number of columns (more than 10) on your report.

   To do that Right click --> Design --> Printer Setup -->Paper --> Size .

2. Another way can be by changing your reports orientation. By default it is Portrait. You can change it to Landscape by

   Right click --> Design --> Printer Setup --> Orientation -->Landscape (Radio button.)

3. File --> Printer Setup --> properties orientation select Portrait