Printing Crystal Report on Client Side in ASP.NET C#

I created an ASP.NET application where I print a Crystal Report report. The problem is that the report is printed at the Server Printer, and as it is a Web Application I need it to get printed at the client machine.

I am using the method PrintToPrinter(1, false, 0, 0) in order to print it without a crystal report viewer.

Does anybody knows if there is a way to have it printed on the client side? If not; what do you recommend to generate reports on the client side for ASP.Net applications?

edited Mar 1 '12 at 21:23

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

asked Mar 1 '12 at 19:04

Francisco G

7842918

It's been awhile since I did anything with Crystal, but see if it has an option to render the report to a PDF. You can then send that down to the client. It won't automatically print, but they'll be able to without Crystal installed, as long as they have a PDF viewer.

– Matt Sieker
Mar 1 '12 at 19:40

add a comment |

I am using the method PrintToPrinter(1, false, 0, 0) in order to print it without a crystal report viewer.

Does anybody knows if there is a way to have it printed on the client side? If not; what do you recommend to generate reports on the client side for ASP.Net applications?

edited Mar 1 '12 at 21:23

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

asked Mar 1 '12 at 19:04

Francisco G

7842918

It's been awhile since I did anything with Crystal, but see if it has an option to render the report to a PDF. You can then send that down to the client. It won't automatically print, but they'll be able to without Crystal installed, as long as they have a PDF viewer.

– Matt Sieker
Mar 1 '12 at 19:40

add a comment |

I am using the method PrintToPrinter(1, false, 0, 0) in order to print it without a crystal report viewer.

Does anybody knows if there is a way to have it printed on the client side? If not; what do you recommend to generate reports on the client side for ASP.Net applications?

edited Mar 1 '12 at 21:23

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

asked Mar 1 '12 at 19:04

Francisco G

7842918

I am using the method PrintToPrinter(1, false, 0, 0) in order to print it without a crystal report viewer.

Does anybody knows if there is a way to have it printed on the client side? If not; what do you recommend to generate reports on the client side for ASP.Net applications?

c# asp.net printing crystal-reports client-side

edited Mar 1 '12 at 21:23

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

asked Mar 1 '12 at 19:04

Francisco G

7842918

edited Mar 1 '12 at 21:23

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

asked Mar 1 '12 at 19:04

Francisco G

7842918

edited Mar 1 '12 at 21:23

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

edited Mar 1 '12 at 21:23

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

edited Mar 1 '12 at 21:23

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

asked Mar 1 '12 at 19:04

Francisco G

7842918

asked Mar 1 '12 at 19:04

Francisco G

7842918

asked Mar 1 '12 at 19:04

Francisco G

7842918

It's been awhile since I did anything with Crystal, but see if it has an option to render the report to a PDF. You can then send that down to the client. It won't automatically print, but they'll be able to without Crystal installed, as long as they have a PDF viewer.

– Matt Sieker
Mar 1 '12 at 19:40

add a comment |

It's been awhile since I did anything with Crystal, but see if it has an option to render the report to a PDF. You can then send that down to the client. It won't automatically print, but they'll be able to without Crystal installed, as long as they have a PDF viewer.

– Matt Sieker
Mar 1 '12 at 19:40

It's been awhile since I did anything with Crystal, but see if it has an option to render the report to a PDF. You can then send that down to the client. It won't automatically print, but they'll be able to without Crystal installed, as long as they have a PDF viewer.

– Matt Sieker
Mar 1 '12 at 19:40

add a comment |

3 Answers
3

active

oldest

votes

Best way is to design a "HTML printable version" of your page with a link calling :

javascript:window.print();

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:14

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

add a comment |

here is what you will need to do / try to get the report to print on the Client Machine

Below line opens up print dialog box to print without showing print preview

crystalReportViewer1.PrintReport();

Below line directly sends reportdocument to default printer.

oReportDocument.PrintToPrinter(1,true,0,0);

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:16

MethodMan

15.8k62749

add a comment |

The Crystal report viewer is a server side control, and it doesn't really provide an easy way to print to client. I have been able to achieve this in the past by exporting the report to PDF, then with a combination of an embedded PDF viewer and some JavaScript, print the PDF.

// On server side

// Export to PDF

Guid imageGuid = Guid.NewGuid();

string pdfName = String.Format(@"{0}{1}{2}.pdf", pdfPath, reportName, imageGuid);

// expport to unique filename

report.ExportToDisk(CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, pdfName);



// Display the pdf object in a literal control (mine's called pdfLiteral)

sb.AppendFormat("<object ID="pdfObject" type="application/pdf" data="{0}" src="{0}" style="width: 2px; height: 2px; ", pdfName);

sb.AppendLine("z-index:1; display: block; top: 0; left: 0; position: absolute; ">");

sb.Append("</object>");

pdfLiteral.Text = sb.ToString();

pdfLiteral.Visible = true;



// client side

// on document load call the printWithDialog function

 var code = function(){

    var pdf = document.getElementById('pdfObject');

    if (pdf == null)

        return;

    try {

        pdf.printWithDialog();

    }

    catch (err) {

        alert('Please Install Adobe Acrobat reader to use this feature');

    }

  };

// window onload, with delay

window.setTimeout(code, 1000);

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25994086/474702

Note: although this works well in Chrome, it only works in IE if the client has Acrobat reader installed as the default PDF viewer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community♦

answered Apr 18 '17 at 13:11

reckface

3,37822546

add a comment |

Your Answer

StackExchange.ifUsing("editor", function () {
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function () {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function () {
StackExchange.snippets.init();
});
});
}, "code-snippets");

StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "1"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);

StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});

function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});

}
});

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2fstackoverflow.com%2fquestions%2f9522314%2fprinting-crystal-report-on-client-side-in-asp-net-c-sharp%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

3 Answers
3

active

oldest

votes

3 Answers
3

active

oldest

votes

Best way is to design a "HTML printable version" of your page with a link calling :

javascript:window.print();

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:14

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

add a comment |

Best way is to design a "HTML printable version" of your page with a link calling :

javascript:window.print();

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:14

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

add a comment |

Best way is to design a "HTML printable version" of your page with a link calling :

javascript:window.print();

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:14

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

Best way is to design a "HTML printable version" of your page with a link calling :

javascript:window.print();

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:14

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:14

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:14

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:14

Amen Ayach

3,64011721

add a comment |

here is what you will need to do / try to get the report to print on the Client Machine

Below line opens up print dialog box to print without showing print preview

crystalReportViewer1.PrintReport();

Below line directly sends reportdocument to default printer.

oReportDocument.PrintToPrinter(1,true,0,0);

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:16

MethodMan

15.8k62749

add a comment |

here is what you will need to do / try to get the report to print on the Client Machine

Below line opens up print dialog box to print without showing print preview

crystalReportViewer1.PrintReport();

Below line directly sends reportdocument to default printer.

oReportDocument.PrintToPrinter(1,true,0,0);

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:16

MethodMan

15.8k62749

add a comment |

here is what you will need to do / try to get the report to print on the Client Machine

Below line opens up print dialog box to print without showing print preview

crystalReportViewer1.PrintReport();

Below line directly sends reportdocument to default printer.

oReportDocument.PrintToPrinter(1,true,0,0);

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:16

MethodMan

15.8k62749

here is what you will need to do / try to get the report to print on the Client Machine

Below line opens up print dialog box to print without showing print preview

crystalReportViewer1.PrintReport();

Below line directly sends reportdocument to default printer.

oReportDocument.PrintToPrinter(1,true,0,0);

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:16

MethodMan

15.8k62749

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:16

MethodMan

15.8k62749

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:16

MethodMan

15.8k62749

answered Mar 1 '12 at 19:16

MethodMan

15.8k62749

add a comment |

// On server side

// Export to PDF

Guid imageGuid = Guid.NewGuid();

string pdfName = String.Format(@"{0}{1}{2}.pdf", pdfPath, reportName, imageGuid);

// expport to unique filename

report.ExportToDisk(CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, pdfName);



// Display the pdf object in a literal control (mine's called pdfLiteral)

sb.AppendFormat("<object ID="pdfObject" type="application/pdf" data="{0}" src="{0}" style="width: 2px; height: 2px; ", pdfName);

sb.AppendLine("z-index:1; display: block; top: 0; left: 0; position: absolute; ">");

sb.Append("</object>");

pdfLiteral.Text = sb.ToString();

pdfLiteral.Visible = true;



// client side

// on document load call the printWithDialog function

 var code = function(){

    var pdf = document.getElementById('pdfObject');

    if (pdf == null)

        return;

    try {

        pdf.printWithDialog();

    }

    catch (err) {

        alert('Please Install Adobe Acrobat reader to use this feature');

    }

  };

// window onload, with delay

window.setTimeout(code, 1000);

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25994086/474702

Note: although this works well in Chrome, it only works in IE if the client has Acrobat reader installed as the default PDF viewer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community♦

answered Apr 18 '17 at 13:11

reckface

3,37822546

add a comment |

// On server side

// Export to PDF

Guid imageGuid = Guid.NewGuid();

string pdfName = String.Format(@"{0}{1}{2}.pdf", pdfPath, reportName, imageGuid);

// expport to unique filename

report.ExportToDisk(CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, pdfName);



// Display the pdf object in a literal control (mine's called pdfLiteral)

sb.AppendFormat("<object ID="pdfObject" type="application/pdf" data="{0}" src="{0}" style="width: 2px; height: 2px; ", pdfName);

sb.AppendLine("z-index:1; display: block; top: 0; left: 0; position: absolute; ">");

sb.Append("</object>");

pdfLiteral.Text = sb.ToString();

pdfLiteral.Visible = true;



// client side

// on document load call the printWithDialog function

 var code = function(){

    var pdf = document.getElementById('pdfObject');

    if (pdf == null)

        return;

    try {

        pdf.printWithDialog();

    }

    catch (err) {

        alert('Please Install Adobe Acrobat reader to use this feature');

    }

  };

// window onload, with delay

window.setTimeout(code, 1000);

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25994086/474702

Note: although this works well in Chrome, it only works in IE if the client has Acrobat reader installed as the default PDF viewer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community♦

answered Apr 18 '17 at 13:11

reckface

3,37822546

add a comment |

// On server side

// Export to PDF

Guid imageGuid = Guid.NewGuid();

string pdfName = String.Format(@"{0}{1}{2}.pdf", pdfPath, reportName, imageGuid);

// expport to unique filename

report.ExportToDisk(CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, pdfName);



// Display the pdf object in a literal control (mine's called pdfLiteral)

sb.AppendFormat("<object ID="pdfObject" type="application/pdf" data="{0}" src="{0}" style="width: 2px; height: 2px; ", pdfName);

sb.AppendLine("z-index:1; display: block; top: 0; left: 0; position: absolute; ">");

sb.Append("</object>");

pdfLiteral.Text = sb.ToString();

pdfLiteral.Visible = true;



// client side

// on document load call the printWithDialog function

 var code = function(){

    var pdf = document.getElementById('pdfObject');

    if (pdf == null)

        return;

    try {

        pdf.printWithDialog();

    }

    catch (err) {

        alert('Please Install Adobe Acrobat reader to use this feature');

    }

  };

// window onload, with delay

window.setTimeout(code, 1000);

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25994086/474702

Note: although this works well in Chrome, it only works in IE if the client has Acrobat reader installed as the default PDF viewer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community♦

answered Apr 18 '17 at 13:11

reckface

3,37822546

// On server side

// Export to PDF

Guid imageGuid = Guid.NewGuid();

string pdfName = String.Format(@"{0}{1}{2}.pdf", pdfPath, reportName, imageGuid);

// expport to unique filename

report.ExportToDisk(CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, pdfName);



// Display the pdf object in a literal control (mine's called pdfLiteral)

sb.AppendFormat("<object ID="pdfObject" type="application/pdf" data="{0}" src="{0}" style="width: 2px; height: 2px; ", pdfName);

sb.AppendLine("z-index:1; display: block; top: 0; left: 0; position: absolute; ">");

sb.Append("</object>");

pdfLiteral.Text = sb.ToString();

pdfLiteral.Visible = true;



// client side

// on document load call the printWithDialog function

 var code = function(){

    var pdf = document.getElementById('pdfObject');

    if (pdf == null)

        return;

    try {

        pdf.printWithDialog();

    }

    catch (err) {

        alert('Please Install Adobe Acrobat reader to use this feature');

    }

  };

// window onload, with delay

window.setTimeout(code, 1000);

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25994086/474702

Note: although this works well in Chrome, it only works in IE if the client has Acrobat reader installed as the default PDF viewer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community♦

answered Apr 18 '17 at 13:11

reckface

3,37822546

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community♦

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community♦

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

Community♦

answered Apr 18 '17 at 13:11

reckface

3,37822546

answered Apr 18 '17 at 13:11

reckface

3,37822546

answered Apr 18 '17 at 13:11

reckface

3,37822546

add a comment |

draft saved

draft discarded

Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!

Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!

But avoid …

Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.

Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.

To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.

draft saved

draft discarded

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Sign up or log in

StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});

Post as a guest

Name

Required, but never shown

Name

Required, but never shown

Name

Required, but never shown

This page is only for reference, If you need detailed information, please check here

Search This Blog

Ufyukyu