>The general conclusion is that getting crystal to talk to foxpro is much muckier than it ought to be.
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>I could scan the article and email it to you if you wish
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>Bruce Strom

I think, that would be not permitted by foxtalk, because of copryrights. Though i don't know the contents, I find this conclusion rather strange.

Well, O.K. I know you've got to work trough ODBC or FOX 2.6 tables, but for the rest i find it's quite straightahead.

I must admit that it cost me a lot of time to intergrate it with my framework. But from now on its almost as easy as using native VFP reports. The only drawback I'm experiencing is that I must convert each table to be reported into a FPW 2.x format and use *.IDX indexes. But once you know this, it's quite comfortable to work with CR.

The advantages are tremendous though:
- Preview allows progrmatic navigation
- Preview allows zooming from 25 to 400%
- Find text within the preview
- Export to several formats, including Word, Excel, HTML and RTF.
- Programmatic control over papersizes and orientation

I'm sure i forgot some more....

Walter,