Linearize PDF

[Former Member]

I am using Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2010, and am attempting to use a third-party .Net assembly to overlay a Crystal Reports PDF onto a separate PDF form. I have been successful at using the third-party tool to overlay a couple of simple PDF documents that I created, however, the PDF generated by Crystal Reports is not working.

If I open the Crystal Reports PDF in Adobe Acrobat and re-save it, it works with the third-party tool. This leads me to believe that the PDF needs to be linearized (Fast Web View), and was wondering if anyone knows how to have Crystal Reports handle this. If it is not linearization that is the issue, then Crystal Reports is generating a PDF that is in some other way not compatible or not adhering to standards.

I am programming in C# .Net, but if anyone has any suggestions in VB .Net, I'll take any advice I can get!

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Don't think there is way to do this.

The exported PDF file is version 1.7 and that may be the issue. Once you open it with your version of Adobe and save, you're essentially updating the file to a higher version and things start to work from there.

No plans to move to the export to a higher version of Adobe PDF.

Ludek

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I tested out the iText open source library and was successful in overlaying the Crystal Reports PDF. It doesn't seem to have a problem with the Crystal Reports PDF like the previous third-party tool I was testing.

Thanks for the info!