spaces in text

[Former Member]

Good morning.

We use CR2008 since a few weeks and suddenly (from one day to another) the phenomenon appeared, that there are in the mid of longer texts spaces appearing. In the datasource SQL Server 2005) there is plain text with no format characters ore anything similar.

By looking at this it seems, that these spaces are filled in in front of characters wich are not 'simple' letters but german umlauts ore dots or brackets ...

I hope anyone has an idea to get this back to 'normal' appearance (as it has been).

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Try enabling the fonts for all users. Go to Control Panel, Regional and Language Setting, Language Tab and enable install Complex Scripts .... and then check on the option under the Advanced tab Default user account settings and see if that fixes the font issue.

Also check your keyboard settings and set the default language to German. You may have to play to find one that works.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Don.

Thanks for your suggestion. When I check the suggested option, Windows starts to install fonts for Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and other languages. Are you really sure this will fix the problem???

I have no other then german characters in my rpt's.

And: the problem comes not with all Reports ... just some of them are disturbed in the preview ... the printouts are correct.

Regards

Hans-Christian

[former_member11696 · Accepted solution]

Hi Hans-Christian,

Crystal generates the characters using the font glyphs which depending on the font being used depends on how it is mapped and linked within windows itself. Tahoma seems to be the popular one for Microsoft to map all these extra character sets to. I suggested adding those font options because if they are there, CR seems to work. But this may be an issue with the DB Client not converting them. Some clients have a language setting and they will convert the charaters "on the fly" to the client PC. Sometimes the Server does the conversion. If it is left up to the client to convert and format the character for display purposes then font mapping and what's called the "local codePage" is what CR uses to set the language options when previewing the report.

The next option is if you use Word there is an option to install internation language fonts and it installs one called "MS Arial Unicode". If you have it try setting the default font for that field to this font and see if that works.

And one other font selection to be aware of. In the Designer any font that has a "@" in front of it is beacuse this is how CR maps them for 90 degree rotation and they should not be selected when formatting a field. They can cause problems like this also.

Thanks again

Don