Crystal Report direct saving as PDF, instead of viewing

I want to make a report from ASP.Net, in Crystal Report. I want, when user click on print, it should simply show a browser dialog of Save,Open,Save as, and PDF should be saved, or Crystal Report print preview should appear, I don't want to display report first in Viewer then click on button to get print or PDF, I want simply from clicking on asp button, I have all the idea of parameters and know how to make report, my question is just to not to show viewer and take report from asp button in a form of PDF or print preview dialog to print. I have used the Export method of .Net for Crystal Report, but it does not work.

• asp.net
• visual-studio
• crystal-reports
• crystal-reports-2008

2 Answers 2

You can generate a PDF by Using a Crystal Report and piece of code.

• First: Generate a Crystal Report as per your requirements.
• Second: Use the below code to generate the PDF:
  • Place the following name spaces at the top of the code page

  Imports CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine Imports CrystalDecisions.Shared 

  Dim CrReport As New CrystalReport1() // Report Name Dim CrExportOptions As ExportOptions Dim CrDiskFileDestinationOptions As New DiskFileDestinationOptions() Dim CrFormatTypeOptions as New PdfRtfWordFormatOptions() 

  CrDiskFileDestinationOptions.DiskFileName = "c:\RichText.pdf" 

  crFormatTypeOptions.FirstPageNumber = 1 // Start Page in the Report crFormatTypeOptions.LastPageNumber = 3 // End Page in the Report crFormatTypeOptions.UsePageRange = True 

  CrExportOptions = crReport.ExportOptions With CrExportOptions // Set the destination to a disk file .ExportDestinationType = ExportDestinationType.DiskFile // Set the format to PDF .ExportFormatType = ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat // Set the destination options to DiskFileDestinationOptions object .DestinationOptions = CrDiskFileDestinationOptions .FormatOptions = crFormatTypeOptions End With 

  Try // Export the report CrReport.Export() Catch err As Exception MessageBox.Show(err.ToString()) End Try 

  Thats it. Now you are ready to create a PDF of the Report.