i hope someone can help me out, we have the following situation:

Frontend: Access 2k, later we will migrate to VB6
DB: MSDE 1.x SP3 - SQL Server
OS: Win2000Pro / NT4 Workstation

- Is it possible to use Crytsal Reports 8.5 in this environment?
- How is Crystal Reports licensed? Can I create Reports as many I need and
can I sell them to my customers without "runtime" - fees for the enduser?
- Is there a limitation in the number of created reports for the developers
or endusers?
- Is there a possibility for the enduser to change the report to his needs?

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT:

MS Access has heavy problems with the correct formats when printers are
changing... Does this problem exist in Crystal Reports 8.x?

... or are there other applications like CR that meets my needs?

Unfortunately we have not much time so I have to decide quickly
weather or not developing with CR

Greetings
Mark

Are you thinking about using the Access front end to view stand alone
Crystal reports that you create?  I've been experimenting with this, hoping
that Access can use the Crystal Report viewer ActiveX.  So far, with both
Access 97 and Access 2000, I can only get a 2" by 2" viewer to appear on an
Access form, and it cannot be resized at run time.  Apparently Crystal works
well with VB6, but my experience there is limited.  The Crystal 8.5
Developers Guide seems to discuss only web and VB approaches for creating or
viewing.

Using Access may be out of the question based on some info I got from the
MSDN library regarding what ActiveX objects can be used with Access.  The
Crystal report viewer is "multi-threaded", whatever that means.  According
to the MSDN white paper, multi-threaded ActiveX objects can't be used with
Access.

I have ordered a book called "Seagate Crystal Reports 8 - The Complete
Reference" by George Peck from Amazon.  I've seen this book mentioned
numerous times as the best source for Crystal, including web and VB coding.
I'm hoping George Peck has figured out an approach for using the report
viewer with Access.

Lastly, I've made about 6 posts over the last 10 days to the Access forums
and the Crystal forum inquiring whether anyone has been successful at using
the viewer in Access, and so far no responses.

Good luck.

Bill