>Craig,
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>I am about to make the jump into Crystal Reports. Just to be clear: the designer edition allows you to distibute reports and runtime (not design) files with no additional license fees, correct?
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It depends. If your application runs on a server or produces reports on a regular schedule for distribution, then you need additional licenses. Also, if you programmatically modify the report, then you'll need additional licenses. If all you do is produce canned reports from the workstation, you're ok.