Automatically generate and export into PDF Crystal Reports 10 - pdf

I have a created a report using Crystal Reports 10. The report contains information about the activity of a person. I need to generate and export this report into PDF for a number of persons (e.g. 70) automatically and save each PDF file with the name of the person, so I will get 70 PDF files.
I have searched for a solution on the Internet but did not manage to find anything helpful.
Can anyone help me with an answer?
Thank you!

You should hook up a parameter to the report's record filter - this way, you can make the report display only records for one particular person.
Then it's just a matter of writing a loop that sets the parameter value and exports a (uniquely named) PDF for each person.

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