How to Export to a PDF file in Crystal Report?

Question

Using VB 6 and Crystal Report 8.5

In client system while generating the report, I clicked export to PDF button in the report; it displayed Export, Export Option. Cho

Answer 1

In my case, on Windows 8.1 x64, the solution was to:

1. locate, on the dev machine, the folder %programfiles%\Seagate Software\Shared

2. copy crtslv.dll and ExportModeller.dll from the dev machine to the C:\windows\SysWOW64\ folder

3. open a command prompt with administrator's privileges

4. register both crtslv.dll and ExportModeller.dll with regsrv32
5. Retry the pdf export...

That's all.

Answer 2

1) Setup crystal report.. 2) Copy crxf_pdf.dll copy from c:\windows\crystal to c:\windows\system32 folder inside… 3) Then problem solved..

Answer 3

Try,

Private Sub ExportReportToPDF(ReportObject As CRAXDRT.Report, Byval FileName As String, Byval ReportTitle As String)
   Dim objExportOptions As CRAXDRT.ExportOptions
   ReportObject.ReportTitle = ReportTitle
    With ReportObject
        .EnableParameterPrompting = False
        .MorePrintEngineErrorMessages = True
    End With

   Set objExportOptions = ReportObject.ExportOptions
    With objExportOptions
        .DestinationType = crEDTDiskFile
        .DiskFileName = FileName
        .FormatType = crEFTPortableDocFormat
        .PDFExportAllPages = True
    End With

    ReportObject.Export False 

End Sub  

Private Sub Command1_Click()
        Dim objCrystal As CRAXDRT.Application
        Dim objReport As CRAXDRT.Report

        Set objCrystal = New CRAXDRT.Application
        Set objReport = objCrystal.OpenReport(ReportFileName, 1)  

        ExportReportToPDF objReport, "c:\foo\foo.pdf", "foo" 
End Sub 

Answer 4

It sounds like a deployment problem with the Crystal files. Check the user has a file called u2ddisk.dll on their machine - this file is required for Crystal 8.5 to give the option to export to file. Otherwise it'll select the Export to Application option instead. The availability of items in the Export Format and Export Destination dropdowns is dependend on the dlls present, and it sounds like you're missing Export To Disk from the Destination dropdown.