>Microsoft recommends creating two repoorts, one for printing and one for previewing with a larger font. The problem with that solution is the extra work involded in creating and manageing 2 reports and you must somehow disable the print button on the preview toolbar.

I agree - this a maintenance nightmare waiting to happen :)

> I think there must be some way of previewing the original report with a higher zoom factor. Does anyone know of a third party control which previews VFP 5.0 reports? Is there a way to send a message to the VFP reports preview window such as the sendmessage API function.

None that I know of.

> What about the report data environnement object? Can that be subclassed to give more control over the preview window such as setting the zoom factor and enableing and disableing preview toolbar buttons.

Two problems. First, while you can play subclassing games with the data environment using forms, there's not enough object orientation in the reports to do this, from what I can tell.

Second, even if you could, font size and other aspects of the previewer are not the responsibility of the data environment, so you would not any help there. On the other hand, you *can* customize the Print Preview toolbar - I just had a thread with Michel on the subject.

> I am also thinking of writing my own VFP 5.0 report previewer with tools such as VFP 5.0, VB 5.0 and VC++ 5.0.

Good luck - you may have a marketable product if you succeed in this! :)