How to display pretty fractions in Crystal Reports generated PDF

Question

I'm exporting a report to PDF using Crystal Reports bundled with VS2008. I need to display non-standard fractions so that they look nice instead of just something like 26/32. I have turned html interpretation on for the field so ½ and other standard html fraction entities display nicely, however, because CR does not understand <sup> and <sub> tags I cannot format non-standard fractions to look pretty. Anyone have any ideas?

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The fractions I'm displaying are passed to the Crystal Report as a string via a dataset in the format "xx/yy" or "xx yy/zz" and represent a product dimension. After thinking about it some more I could probably pass the numerator and the denominator as separate fields and format them in the report that way, but I'm hoping there's a more elegant way.

Answer 1

I don't know if this will work, but I'll throw it out there anyway.

You can try to use inline styles instead of <sup> or <sub>. vertical-align allows a value of sub or super.

Example:

<td style="vertical-align:sub"> ... </td>

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Look at my posting Crystal Reports: DecimalToFraction() Function