>Wow, non-proportional fonts is not an option. I have to support any and all fonts on the users system.
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>I have been digging around on MSDN and have run across some docs on the printer object in VB. It has two methods (text height and text width) that return these values in the current scale mode.
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>What are the chances of being able to create a printer object activex control in VB and call it from fox?

You could create an ActiveX control in VB and call it from VFP.

>Are you (or anyone else) familiar with the VB printer object?

Sure, there's even a file here that does it. Mike Levy and John Koziol posted it a while back. I don't know the file number or category off-hand, however. Hopefully someone will jump in and provide it.