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>Sadly, it doesn't. I designed the report without printer information stored in the report. In run-time I direct the report to a user-choosen printer. When I design the report in landscape it will print in portrait.
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>The reports are printer from many different clients with very limmited user rights regarding printing. Though I know you can simply add a printer with the default setting of printing landscape, but I don't find this to be a suitable solution.
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>Basicly i'm looking for a way to control all printer settings at run time. Within VFP reports your can control a lot of the printersettings by hacking the tag field in the .FRX Im looking for a way within a Crystal Report to do the same.
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>I've looked in the Seagate knowledge base and came to the conclusion it is not directly possible by using the OCX. When I make use of the known API calls for CR it is theorecly possible by hacking the DEVMODE structure, but I did not succeed in a succesfull implementation of thin manner. In my opinion the only way to solve this problem is to write a DLL in C or C++, but unfortunately i'm not too comfortable within VC.
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>I was hoping someone did find a workarround to tackle this problem.... no luck so far.

Strange, because I've done this successfully in the past. What version of CR are you using?