ASP.net - Crystal Reports exporting to PDF adds the letter "i" to certain words randomly

Question

We are using Crystal Reports to generate pdf's of customer bills (from a CR template). It works fine except the engine seems to be adding the letter "i" to random words in the output. Certain alignment problems are also evident (words overlapping etc). Standard fonts are being used.

We are using .net 4 and C# linked to the 10.5 CR assemblies. Latest version of Adobe Acrobat reader is installed on the server.

We have now tried this via 12.2 CR assemblies with the same results. We have also tried multiple .rpt files with the same results.

Answer 1

I have the same problem, sometimes. I have it on my developer machine and now on Win2k8 x64 but not on my test server Win2k3 x32.

It's a bug somehow in the PDF generation in combination with the Calibri font. The only solution i have is to use a different font.

Answer 2

Same problem with Calibri font; I'm using .NET 2.0 and C# with Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2008.

I haven't tested this, but somebody has reported that using a PDF printer instead of exporting to PDF directly from Crystal is a workaround for this problem: http://community.sagesaleslogix.com/slsl/board/message?message.uid=10777