>Does anyone know how to output a report to text and not have the formatting be screwed up? I take a simple 132 column courier new landscape report and output it to file ascii and get some weird spacing and blank lines.
>Any ideas?

When we want to print to a text file or to a dot matrix, we use the old FoxPro 2.5 for DOS.
Reports created with it are perfectly laid out when you run them from VFP.