Brain,

>We're using Crystal to produce reports because Crystal made it more straight-forward to do the multi-line totals that we do and handle the variable number of groups that is determined by the user at run-time. However, we are finding it to be too slow for our liking. And the .RPT files we're creating range from .5 to 1.5 meg which makes loading it into memory less than a snap. Has anyone found anything with Crystal's power but runs faster? We're working on the speed issue, but we're also wondering if we shouldn't be using something else.

1.5 Meg for a report ?? Are you sure ? This a lot for a report. My reports range from 50kb to 200 kb. Make sure:

- You don't have large pictures embedded in your report
- You don't save data within the report (file, report options, uncheck the save data with report option).

My reports run like a charm, even better and faster than the native reports. As far as i'm aware off: there is not better report writer than Crystal Reports.


Walter,