>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?
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>You have to screw around with the values of _ASCIIROWS and _ASCIICOLS before you issue the REPORT form. What values? Depends on the report and whether it is in portrait or landscape mode.
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>Check out these 2 system variables in the on-line help.

Sometimes it's impossible to beat the beast. 3 years ago (or more) I struggled with the problem as well. For some reports we were able to empirically find magical numbers, but some I re-designed using filetostr approach...