Crystal report printing to 2 different printers using IP address

Hi ,

I using vb6 and crystal report 5.0 version.
There is a requirement to print reports to two different locations (diff.countries) . If I have the printer machine's IP address instead of Printer name , is it possible to print reports based on the IP address to the resp. printers ? Crystal reports -> printer setup menu will accept only printer name and not printer IP address. Crystal help is not having any clue about this.

It will be of great help if you can throw some light on this.

Thanking you in advance,
Deepa.I use CR Version 8.5.

In my VB code, I loop through the Printers object to get the name of the printer I want and then pass the required info back to Crystal (Printer Name, Port, and DriverName). I don't know if it's possible, but perhaps you can loop through the printer collection and compare it to the IP address to get the right printer?

Dim prt As Printer

For Each prt In Printers

If prt.DeviceName = strPrinterName Then 'You would compare to IP address instead

Set Printer = prt

strDeviceName = prt.DeviceName
strDriverName = prt.DriverName
strPort = prt.Port

Exit For

End If
Next prt

Set prt = Nothing

Report.SelectPrinter strDriverName, strDeviceName, strPort

Report.PrintOut False|||Thank you for your response !!

Tried your code and found that this code piece will work if the specified printer is installed in the local machine.But in my case the application will be provided with a Printer IP address alone.Meaning if we go to Control Panel -> Printers option , there will not be any printer installed.Hence the Problem!

Thanks and Regards,
Deepa.|||I'm sorry I can't be of anymore help, but if you find the solution, will you post it?|||I am trying out some options as of now .Once I get the best way , I will post it here.

Thnaks a lot
Deepa.

Crystal Report and Unicode

Hi,

I'm having problem with a report (CR 8).

I have to use it also in different countries that are using particular characters, such as Greece, Russia, Czech Republic.

Which font do I have to use?

I've tryed with Arial Unicode, but in CR I have always to specify the set (Cyrillic, Central Europe, Greek, etc.) and it is working only in the correspondant country.

Is there a solution?

thanks
SnowbHi Snowb, I'm facing same issue as you discribed. Have you found any solution ?
Cheers
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Hi,

I'm having problem with a report (CR 8).

I have to use it also in different countries that are using particular characters, such as Greece, Russia, Czech Republic.

Which font do I have to use?

I've tryed with Arial Unicode, but in CR I have always to specify the set (Cyrillic, Central Europe, Greek, etc.) and it is working only in the correspondant country.

Is there a solution?

thanks
Snowb|||No solution up to now.
Maybe newer versions of Crystal Reports solve this problem, but everytime I upgrade my installation, I need to upgrade also other sw and hundreds of users... It's always a mess!|||i have successfully used unicode strings on a crystal report, (crystal 9). it was my only option after trying hard to get it working on previous version, it just doesn't support unicode before v9.|||thanks for the info. I will try it.
... did you try also to export in Word format? In version 8 it's not working, and they know about this...|||i have successfully used unicode strings on a crystal report, (crystal 9). it was my only option after trying hard to get it working on previous version, it just doesn't support unicode before v9.

Hello stromberg45,

I am new to crystal reports, presently i am working with Crystal reports XI in VB 6.0 for genrating unicode reports(Kannada - an Indian Language). I have created the report using the Standard Report Creation Wizard and saved it. I am storing the data in MS Access 2003 database which supports unicode.

The problem is that when I open the Report1.rpt file directly by cliking on it I am able to see the data in the Kannada language. But if open the same report using the Crystal Report Viewer form VB code, I am not able see the data in Kannada language, its all qustion marks - it is converting the text into Kannada Language.

Can you help me out with this problem.

I have wriiten the following code ...

Dim crxApplication As New CRAXDRT.Application
Dim crxReport As New CRAXDRT.Report

Set crxReport = crxApplication.OpenReport(App.Path & "\reports\Report1.rpt")

Form1.CRViewer1.EnableRefreshButton = True
Form1.CRViewer1.EnableNavigationControls = True
Form1.CRViewer1.EnableSearchControl = False
Form1.CRViewer1.ReportSource = crxReport
Form1.CRViewer1.ViewReport
Form1.Show

Form1 has the CrystalActivexReportViewer control.

Regards,
Shiva|||Hi all,
I am in a similer situation where in i need to display the arabic data in Crystal Report from Datas base. I have tried all the fonts settings including Arial Unicode, Arabic Transperent, Tahoma etc.. but it is displaying like Junk values..

I am using VB 6 Cache 5.2 and Crystal 10.

i am able to store and retrive the arabic data from VB,even though the data in DB looks like junk values. when it comes to Crystal Report it is showing that same hwo it is stored in the DB.
so tried directly enterd some data as arabic itself in DB that is coming as ??mark in both VB and Crystal Report.

plz help me how to resolve the problem with CR 10
thanks in Advance

Binu