how to manage page size and margin in crystal report?

Question

I am new to crystal reports and using crystal report with .Net (WinForm / Visual Studio 2010).

I was thinking what would be the way to setup page size and top, bottom, left and right margins in report. I tried to look options but couldn't get it. Please guide me.

Solution 1

If you use Crystal Reports to design your report, Page size and Margins can be edited by Page Setup. Right Click on your report select Page Setup. You'll get a window as shown below.


Here you can edit the page size and margins...

If you use VS2010 to design your report, follow the below steps

For Margins Open Page Setup

Hope this helps !!

Solution 2

And to change them programmatically:

        yourReportObject.PrintOptions.PaperSize = CrystalDecisions.Shared.PaperSize.PaperA4;
        yourReportObject.PrintOptions.ApplyPageMargins(new CrystalDecisions.Shared.PageMargins(0, 0, 0, 0));

Comments

[Emanuele Greco]

Good answer; 'no printer' is suggested, anyway.

[Hariharan Anbazhagan]

Thx but i cant get what u say as 'no printer'

[Emanuele Greco]

Look at 'Print Setup' image; RICOH printer params are nested into the report, but final user won't have RICOH printe. So flag 'no printer' to increase report performance

[Emanuele Greco]

'Therefore, as a best practice for scalability, modify your report to use no printer driver.' read here msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms225523(v=vs.80).aspx

[Hariharan Anbazhagan]

yeah got it now ! Thq very mcuh

[Smith]

@EmanueleGreco how do you then set the size of the paper, and what papersize does crystal report defaults to the the Noprinter option