Friday, 27 September 2013

Contiguous Printing in Crystal Reports

Contiguous Printing in Crystal Reports

I have developed a Crystal report (more like modified a default one that
came with Epicor) that prints out parts and descriptions on a sales order.
At our company, we have a generic part number that is representative of a
particular type of finished product. In the description, we provide
detailed information on the specific product being supplied, like sizes
and various other specifications. As a result, these descriptions can get
pretty lengthy. The problem is that Crystal prints the descriptions as a
block rather than flowing text. Meaning that if a description is too large
to fit in the remaining space on a page, it will jump it to the next page
leaving a large gap on the previous page, instead of printing the text
that does fit and then starting over on a new page with the remaining
text. This really causes problems when a description is roughly the same
size as a page, as it duplicates the description, sometimes more than a
dozen times. So my question is, is there a way to make Crystal print these
as flowing, contiguous text rather than blocks?

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