It's possible to print reports using FPD Printer drivers, under VFP. The drawback is, you will need to maintain the reports in FPD, not VFP. If you wish, I can outline what I did to make this work.

>'about foxpro printing in draft mode'
>generic is fine but if i got to format using '|' charectors
>it just does'nt work like it used to in Foxpro 2.6.
>more over how do i get to format a compressed mode layout ?
>presenly i'm doing it in a pretty crude fashion.
>i set the printer in whatever printer deiver to get fonts for the
>printer in the layout. I then repo form the prport using to file
>ASCII option ( after setting _ASCIIROW & _ASCIICOLS ) and !type filename > prn
>& keep checking until i get the formatting right.
>the other way is to repo form a foxpro2.6 report using getprn
>driver... and that works but then have of the development must
>be done in foxpro2.6 and the other half in visual foxpro..
>(reminds me of MS C++ for windows : develop it in dos mode to
>run in protected windows env..)