Crystal report: resizing papersize

I am having a little of problem with this, I am using a custom papersize, I configured the report correctly and it works perfectly on the computer I compile the application, but if I run the application on another computer, even though it has the same printer and paper sizes, it will aways print on A4.
I am not sure at all what is the problem, using CrystalReportViewer or printing with the PrintToPrinter method, it will lose the paper size previously configured and use A4.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I have managed to print with any paper settings.
Unfortunately I found NO way to do it with code.
It′s a lot about configuring your windows.

In the windows that will print, you have to configure your printer with the paper settings you want to use. If the form you want doesn′t exist, create it, and set the printer default with it, it′s important to set the custom paper size as printer default, so you can set the crystal size as the printer default.

If you are going to print an custom paper size, I discovered a bug with Crystal Reports...
If you change the printer name of a report, it will screw your configuration
So what I do is instantiate another Crystal Report to keep my page size.
This is not needed if you are using one the Crystal default paper sizes. (From CrystalDecisions.Shared.PaperSize)

MYCRYSTALREPORT crpt = new MYCRYSTALREPORT();

crpt.SetDataSource(SOMEDATASET);

MYCRYSTALREPORT crpt2 = crpt; //crpt2 will only keep page size

crpt.PrintOptions.PrinterName = "PRINTERNAME";

crpt.PrintOptions.PaperSize = crpt2.PrintOptions.PaperSize;

crpt.PrintToPrinter(1,false,0,0);

Just tried.

Unfortunately the situation is the same.

On my pc, where I designed the report, it's all ok.

On the end-users pcs I've followed this procedure:

Since the printer is connected to the LAN via a standard LPR print server I installed on all the pcs the Epson printer like a local printer using a standard TCP/IP port.Then ,on every pc, I created the custom paper format and I've set the standard format for the printer as my custom format.

On 1 pc it work as expected.

On another 1, no matter how I change the settings or I use your trick, or use the PrintToPrinter Method, the report is always rendered using the A4 format.

I'm going crazy!

Any help will be appreciated.

The code I used is already there, look my previous post :)

However I solved the problem!

I can't believe CR is acting in such a (stupid) way!

The fact is that crystal report save the information of the format of a report in a non-portable way!
It saves the "ID" of the format instead of his "Name"!
The problem is that in Windows this ID is machine dependent.

The trick is very simple:

1 - Search on the system for the printer you want to use.

2 - Cycle over all the supported format searching for your custom format (I search it by name but you can search it also by dimensions (in inches)).

3 - Get the ID.

4 - Assign it to the report's PaperSize property.

5 - Bingo!

Here it is a quick example:

Dim doctoprint As New System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument()
doctoprint.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = "YourPrinterName" '(ex. "Epson SQ-1170 ESC/P 2")
For i = 0 To doctoprint.PrinterSettings.PaperSizes.Count - 1
Dim rawKind As Integer
If doctoprint.PrinterSettings.PaperSizes(i).PaperName = "MyCustomFormatName" Then
rawKind = CInt(doctoprint.PrinterSettings.PaperSizes(i).GetType().GetField("kind", Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance Or Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic).GetValue(doctoprint.PrinterSettings.PaperSizes(i)))
oRpt.PrintOptions.PaperSize = rawKind
Exit For
End If
Next

Hope it helps!

Cheers

Stefano

i have a directory list which i need to print in a booklet (100 copies).

i need to export my CR data to a pdf file and bring the pdf file to a printing office. how do i resize the page from 8.5x11 to 5.5x8.5 (half the size) before printing?Can i set the size 5.5x8.5 before exporting the list to a pdf file or do i set it before printing?either way,how?

Thanks in advance,

Adrian