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Adding adobe acrobat text field in crystal reports

Former Member
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Currently trying to add an adobe acrobat text field to a PDF using crystal reports.  Any help would be appreciated.

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former_member183750
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Can you explain a bit more how you want to do this?

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Former Member
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In a perfect world... 

I would like to add an OLE object of type "Adobe Text Field" (rather than a standard Crystal Reports text field, in my .rpt file.

Right now we use .NET to save the rpt as a pdf. Re-open it with PDF_Lib, PDI and TET to add this field.

The issue is the process adds tie to our software and the license fees for the 3 Adobe utilities is 30k plus 10k per year.

DellSC
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Unfortunately, there is no way to do this from Crystal.  The software provides very limited control over any type of export.  Basically, if the option is not on the export options screen, then there's no way to access the functionality during the export.

Having said that, there may be a third-party tool that will do this that would be less expensive than the Adobe utilities.  Take a look at http://www.kenhamady.com/bookmarks.html for a fairly comprehensive list of available tools to get you started.

-Dell

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