Summary

When a report is exported to the "plain text" format, you may encounter formatting problems such as truncated text and improper column alignment.

More Information

The plain text output format often does not work well for reports that have not been specifically designed with plain text export in mind. Report Commander should produce the same output as the Crystal Reports designer.

Before you export to plain text using Report Commander, you should export to plain text using the Crystal Reports Designer and adjust the report layout and formatting if the output does not look correct.

The characters-per-inch and lines-per-page options available when exporting from the Crystal Reports Designer can often be adjusted to improve the look of the output.

Corresponding options are available when exporting the report using Report Commander (though these options do not appear in the interactive command-line builder):

For example, these options sets the output to 12 characters per inch, with no pagination:

-charactersperinch:12 -linesperpage:0

For additional information on plain text output formatting, refer to the Crystal Reports documentation.