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>But with more than 100 clients we cannot go and install GENERIC Driver and difficult to train them to set every time it as default printer when printing using our package .
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>Is there any way to preview the report generated through report writer and then we could take it to a .TXT file.
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>We tried REPORT FORM TEST.FRX TO TEST.TXT
>So our user can get exact visual idea of the report being printed with all sort of formatting like bold, compression etc..
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>But the TEST.TXT file contains all sorts of default printer codes ...
>so is there any way to remove all this codes and just get the DATA into the .txt file.
>then we could print it off using COPY TO command. We will encode the esc codes in the data for the bold, compression etc. effects.
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This is not a V.F.P. issue.. This is a Windows issue.. So, everytime that you need to send ASCII code to some external device on LPT port.. Your code always will be interpreted by your default driver that will exchange the data... This is the default behavior of any printer driver.. The only one that will allow ASCII special chars is the GENERIC driver..

There is some shortcut to deal with this.. But, IMO every trying on that direction will be on the wrong-way of Windows path.. Because, there is many safety issue co-related with that one.