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Change system default font for reports?
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13/02/2015 13:22:23
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
 
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 8.1
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01615267
Message ID:
01615310
Views:
48
>>>Is there any way to change the system default font. I want to switch a bunch of my reports from Courier New to Consolas. Some of our customers are still running XP and don't have the Consolas font. I can force fields on the report to degrade to a font of my choosing using the dynamic styles, but labels seem to degrade to a system default font.
>>>
>>>Is there any way to specify the font that will be used when the reporting system can't find the font specified? Where does VFP get that font value from?
>>
>>Hm, no idea to do this in general. One can play arounf with the frx files or do ackward stuff with listeners.
>>
>>What I have done is to stay away from Consolas in general - customers are way back with ther OSes ....
>
>I have hundreds of reports that are just lines of text in Courier New. I am trying to implement FoxyPreviewer for emailing and saving as pdf but since it uses GDI+ the Courier New font needs a little more horizontal space and now my reports don't fix. Consolas seems to be just a little bit skinnier and makes a great replacement. It fits and looks nice. Is there some other monospace font that will work well in this situation?

Not that I know off

But, depending on the report design, if they are not to narrow spaced (field to field), you can increase the width of each field by adding a bit to field in the frx. Normaly it's not to much to add.
Just something with ascan and replace.

The other way would be to change reports font this way.
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