>>Let's say the font is Arial Normal 8 and FONTMETRIC(6), the average width, is 5 pixels. Leaving out TXTMETRIC() to make the example simple, let's say all of the characters in the string are "average".
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>I don't know the answer to what your asking, but I have a little trick to get the real length of a string in screen pixels. Add a label to a form, set its top to -100 and its Font and Size to whatever your measuring, and its caption to the string. Then Set its AutoSize to .T. and just read the length.

I should have said "Mailing Label" but I'm wondering if there is any way to use this technique. The old way of finding the Currently Selected printer was to create a dummy report and then see what FoxPro put in the TAG field.