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Crystal Reports - Printed field alignment issue


We have created a couple reports in VS2008 and since we've converted to 2012 we've run into an issue where the fields look perfect in the designer and in the viewer, but when we print it the fields are all moved. Now it isn't all the same movement either, some items moved down about an inch, others moved up a half inch, some left/right/etc. So to resolve the issue immediately I've opened designer and manually moved the fields so that they look wrong on designer but they print properly. The issue I'm running into now is when I put a field at the very top of the page, it still pushes it down despite all margins being set to zero.

Now I don't like breaking my designer to make it work, so if there is a more permanent solution people are aware of, that would be ideal. But if there is anyway to force this field to be pushed to top of page, that would be an acceptable temp fix.

The nature of our need here is that this prints on a specific insurance form and the fields have to fit in the proper boxes or they are declined.

Thanks in advance,

  • Dylan

Solution

  • We had to recreate the form in VS2012. Something about the conversion process for an 08 file to 12 just would not hold margins at all.