>I have been working on trying to move our Fox 2.5 Dos
>Legacy app into VFP. The main issue holding us back right now is reports. I have dealt with most of the reports, however several of the reports relied on the "NOEJECT" option and send several reports to one page (ie header.frx, ? lines, footer.frx)
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>Specifically we have an invoice that has a perf at the bottom. The footer must line up w/ the perf. If the invoice detail goes further than the perf, the footer has to print on the next page. There are also a lot of "special cases" on the detail which made coding it into the report writer extremely difficult if not impossible.
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>VFP will not allow this. I have ported the header and footer into @ x, y SAY commands and set device to printer, which works well, but the following problems still linger:
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> @ x, y TO x2, y2 does not work with SET SCREEN, but
> I need to be able to draw a thick line (4pt)
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> I am having a difficult time centering proportional text. TXTWIDTH and FONTMETRIC don't seem to help w/
> printer info even for TRUETYPE fonts.
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>Any ideas on how to proceed or perhaps there is a "better way" that I have missed w/ using the report writer?

Look at Crystal Reports..There are many complicated things that you can't do with the VFP report writer.

Craig