I'm a relative newbie, so forgive me if I'm completely out to lunch, but -- isn't it possible to embed printer control codes in a report? If so, and the output is going to a page printer (i.e. laser), you could issue the codes at the beginning of the summary band to position the output at a precise page coordinate (row/column) of your choice. (Or, put the codes at the beginning of each output field in the summary, if that's necessary to override VFP's positioning of the output.)

Isn't it just a matter of using an expression which calls a UDF (which would make use of the "???" command to issue the codes) in an output field?
I am hoping that it is, since the application that I'm porting to VFP is going to have to do some crazy stuff (like print sideways on a page that contains otherwise normal printing) which I had little trouble with in the ancient DOS application that my clients are using now, and I would hate to think that I'm going to have to face coding all this output by hand!

If anyone can enlighten me on whether this approach is feasible, I would appreciate it.


>How can I make the summary band of a report appear at the very bottom of the page? I am trying to simulate some old reports, but the default puts the summary band immediateyl after the last line of the report, which makes it appear all over the place from report to report.
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>The users and filing people are used to seeing this info at the very bottom.
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>I tried a page footer, but it shows up on every page, and if I use the "print when" to print it only on the last page, it leaves a big blank area on each page execpt the last page.
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>Any ideas?