>When I switched to VFP from DOS (VFP version 5), I left all of my reports in DOS because of 3 problems:
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>1. My reports are 132 column financial reports that can run in either portrait or landscape and I have never found a font that is readable in the equivalent of 132 columns in VFP reports in portrait.
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>2. My current reports will automatically resize to portrait or landscape depending on the printer setup selected (done through a 2 pass report system, write to a file, then output to another report with the font set for portrait or landscape).
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>3. There are over 2000 reports to convert so this needs to be automated and correct. I would like to go in over time and add the visual features but I don't want to have to touch every report when I cut over.
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>I've looked and played with this problem for years and haven't been able to solve it. If I need to pay someone to write some software to give me a solution for this, I am open to this.
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>If anyone would like an example of the type of report I am trying to convert let me know and I can email you a sample.
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>Thanks.

Are these coded reports or you used frx back in DOS ?
Worked for company with the same kind of reporting style in the past
so I still vaguely remember complexities involved.

What I did in this respect was to offer my user different layouts
for the same report. In this respect old fashioned 132 column report simply became landscape, while 80c report was rebuilt as ordinary portrait frx.
But I don't have to deal with matrix printers any longer because
we have thrown them all out :) which might not be the case with your
users.

When I moved into corporate environment (with inhouse users only) I applied way simpler solution where user simply choose layout according to his preference (and printer used) rather then trying to automate everything based on printer info and user printing preferences kept in tables as it used to be the case in DOS days.

As for font;
Try Arial 7, it should be able to fit 132 characters in landscape format and it still readable in preview mode. Most of my financial reports are built this way. Sometimes I use even size 6 for more char/line space.

HTH