>>>Looks like I am in deep shit. My customer doesn't like the idea of asking his business associates to download 3rd party reader to read email.
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>>>MS should do a better job than this.
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>>>>In my experience reporting to ASCII doesn't work very well. You may want to move PDF up your list options a bit.
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>>>>>When I print report to a ASCII file, some of my data fields are truncated. I guess my alternative is to set 'stretch when overflow'. But it is not a good idea to keep a 2nd copy of report format just for this. PDF is my very... last resort.
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>>>>>Is this a MS bug? Anyone knows a way to overcome this?
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>>It may be a field ordering problem. Check your front-to-back/back-to-front order for each of the fields. Positioning IS a major problem with ASCII mode, though.
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>I don't understand. I don't overlap fields. Furthermore, the same reports print well on printers.
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>Can you elaborate?

Since positioning (and sizing!) of ASCII fields are not perfect, they may overlap. What happens is, if your fields do overlap due to a sizing error (FoxPro's), part of the value of one field may be obscurred by another field. Change the front/back ordering in the report of the fields and see the difference.