Displaying RichText in Crystal Reports - visual-studio-2005

I have a report created in Crystal (the version that comes with Visual Studio 2005) that contains an IFieldObject that I want to use to display some rich text. I have set the TextFormat of the IFieldObject to crRTFText, however when I run the report the textbox displays all the rtf markup rather than actually displaying the formatted text.
Is there some other settings that need to be changed in order for Crystal to display rich text?

What viewer are you using for your report? The HTML based viewers (WebForm and Java) may not support RTF output.
The ActiveX (definitely!) or WinForm (I think) viewers should support RTF in fields.
Have you tried rich formatting with html instead?

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Changed the font color to all texts to red but text values still don't show.
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My issue was resolved by unticking the "Allow height to increase" check box for the text box.
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I faced this same issue using the standalone Report Builder application, and I resolved it by placing the textbox inside a rectangle. From then on, it rendered in preview mode as expected. However, I'm not sure how that would affect auto-growth.

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It is in the XPiNC.
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Domino's Native Rich Text format
MIME / Html - Which is used throughout the internet and mail systems.
There is a setting on the Item Properties which determines what format
'Store contents as Mime/html'.
The XPages control only supports MIME / HTML.
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See this description. Towards the bottom we have this:
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