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Problem with line lengths
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00231034
Message ID:
00231040
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>We are having a printing problem. Here's the scenario:
>- we create a cursor file to collect and format all of the fields we want to print
>- we use 'set memowidth' to automatically determine the number of lines to print and we break each line out into a separate record in our cursor
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>The problem is that the memowidth is set to # of characters and basically we are printing graphically (so a row of W's is going to be longer than a row of I')
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>We don't want to have to set the memowidth to the minimum number of characters and then have our space under utilized and we have tried using the textwidth function to determine the average line length but we can still end up with overflow.
>
>Anybody have any suggestions?

Is there some reason you can't let the report handle the memo printing? It does a good job, normally...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.
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