We try to work with generic text only driver but with no good results.
So we are using diferent way to achieve text only report on dot printers.
We create graphic report definition we use report to ascii command and in next step we convert ascii file (to achieve better layout) and copy it to printer.
Result are quite good(?) - but in this way we also don't have total control on printout layout. We are doing so because we don't want to have two different report definitions - first for graphic and second for text only printers.
End user with dot printer can choose, text (quick and not pretty) printout
or (nice and slow) graphic printout.

I know that I am not answering your qestions, but maybe in a way it will be helpfull to you.

Greetings.


>Any advice regarding the following printing issues would be greatly appreciated.

>1. With this printer driver only 2 fonts are available, modern & Roman 10cpi. If we choose Roman10cpi, Windows substitutes a proportional font for the screen display. Is there any way to force windows to substitute a more sensible non-proportional font?
>I have checked the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\SHARED TOOLS\FONT MAPPING registry entries
>
>The entries are as follows:
>Name Data
>
>Courier 10cpi "Roman 10cpi"
>Roman 10cpi "Courier 10cpi"
>
>Does this make sense?
>
>2. When printing to an Epson RX\100
>here at our office some fields will print on a new line for no apparent reason. Eg. we have the 2 fields of identical size the same horizontal position but different vertical positions in the header band of a report. The first field prints ok but the second field prints at column 1 on a new line. Other fields will also print in the wrong position for no discernible reason, even though they are displayed in correctly via "preview" at run time.
>
>All help & suggestions will be greatly appreciated,
>
>TIA
>
>Andy