Printing Reports to PDF with "Microsoft Print to PDF"

Article Type: Tips & Tricks

Product AREA: Beas

TOPIC / SYSTEM AREA (Beas): Crystal reports / Printing issues

System Functionality: Print

Scenario description

You want to print your Crystal report to a PDF printer. The current installed Printer for PDF is “Microsoft Print to PDF” and no other PDF printer is available you’ll get the following situation:

1. You press the Print-Button and select your report

2. Then you do a selection of the printer:

3. A System Window will open to give a name to your created PDF file

4. SAP/Beas application will stuck and you have to kill this process

Solution

It is a limitation of Beas to Print PDF documents with “Microsoft Print to PDF”.

For printing to PDF you have to install an other PDF printer (e.g. PDF Creator, Bullzip PDF)