This is an old question that many of us have had trouble with.

The question is how to REPORT FORM TO FILE ASCII correctly a VFP report. In the case of reports designed with FoxDOS and kept in the FoxDOS format, VFP creates the output to file correctly, but in the case of reports that I migrated programmatically from FoxDOS to VFP format the results are unreliable. These reports print and display correctly but when it comes to creating an ASCII file there are problems. I have tried to programatically space report elements farther apart vertically just before issuing REPORT FORM TO FILE ASCII, including increasing band size, but sometimes a line is totally skipped and some others a field and a label are printed in separate lines. The difficulty could be dealt if I knew exactly the rules used by VFP to determines break between lines. Does anyone have any idea what those rules may be?

I use XFRX which does a fine job creating pdf files. In that case I think it is writing pixels to a file, which is not the same as outputing whole characters. XFRX also has similar problems creating text files.

Alex