>>Hi all,
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>>I want to write applications which use reports generated by Crystal reports AND can be distributed freely.
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>>The main goal is to write a mechanism that allows the user to print or preview a report without having a lincense for CR.
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>>I thought this could be done with the royalty free Crystal report Activex control.
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>>I did try to use the crystal report control but i was not able of accomplishing eiter a print or preview.
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>I believe you need at least a "user-level" installation of CR (and license), that's what we've been told. Seagate is pretty tight and expensive about their product...it would cost us a small fortune just for doing what you want to do, with a large number of users at about $300 per user...we probably won't use it after all, instead using native vfp and PB reports, now that PB has added a report writer similar to vfp...

Can u pls tell me what are PB Reports ???