Do you mean that you want a blank report, with some structure to it, and then you want to change the recordset on the fly, and send output to PDF format?

I think that Crystal Reports 9.0 can do that, last one I worked with was 8.5 and it could do AD-HOC reports in Visual BASIC and Active Server Pages. I've forgotten how to do that, but it can be done.

With VB or ASP I could:

#1 Load the report template file, anyone I choose.
#2 Specify the recordset or ODBC cnnection.
#3 Print or export the report. I think 9.0 has PDF output now.

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The ones provided on the CDs are buggy, they usually have the updated samples on the CR website. The samples can show you how to change the recordset, etc.