I\'m looking for a method to resize the page width Crystal Reports gives me to place fields in my .rpt file.
So far I have discovered if I right click on the report,
I realize that this is a very old topic and the question is about design mode but since this question keeps coming up in my Google searches, I expect that this may help someone. So, I just wanted to add that programmatically, this can be done without a dummy printer like this:
var repDoc = new ReportDocument();
repDoc.Load(rpt_path);
ISCDReportClientDocument clientDoc = repDoc.ReportClientDocument;
clientDoc.PrintOutputController.ModifyUserPaperSize(repDoc.PrintOptions.PageContentHeight, repDoc.PrintOptions.PageContentWidth * 2);