Re: Brio Portal?

["Brunelle, Cindy - AD/Corporate" <Cindy.Brunelle@METROIS.COM>]

Is the PDF solution an option for Crystal reports as well?  (Sorry, I know
this list is SQR only - but we are hoping for a "one size fits all"
solution.

Thanks,

Cindy


-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Stratton Treadway [mailto:nathant@ONTKO.COM]
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 1999 3:39 PM
To: SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
Subject: Re: Brio Portal?


On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:30:46AM -0800, Clara Carter wrote:
> I think once you get it working it can do the job. The only thing
> I do not like is that the client needs to have the viewer installed
> on his machine in order to view the spfs. It does not provide a
[...]
> The html conversion is not pretty and unpredictable. Unless it's
> just viewing information then it does the trick. But if the user
> wants to print out the report it gets ugly. It allows you to publish

One work-around to both these problems is to publish your reports in PDF
format.  As other messages here have said, SQR can now output PDF format
directly starting; if you don't have a version that does this you might
want to get an upgrade and give -printer:pd a try for your reports....

Your users will have to have Acrobat installed on their machines, but
that's a lot easier to do that trying to get the SQR viewer installed
on all those machines (and it can be a plug-in).  Plus, PDF files can be
printed without the problems you see printing from HTML.

                                                Nathan

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