> Does (or can) the same font require different widths for different printers?

Aparently, no. A true type font must have the same height and width on any printer. I have measured a letter printed with two different printers and it had the same dimensions, but it seems that VFP has a problem. VFP associates a report with a printer, so even though true type fonts should be independent of printer, the same report printed on two different printers behaves differently. On one, the one the report was designed with, it behaves as expected. On the other one, it prints small asteriscs instead of letters.

>Could I fix this problem by having all the machines select the same primary >printer and then make sure the report works for that printer?

Yes.

>Or alternately, I have to find out which printer (and its corresponding >printer driver) requires the greatest width for a given field and then design >reports to be compatible with that printer.

Hmmm... It's pointless. On other aplications, everything goes well.

>If so, this is a new concept for me. I thought documents were supposed to come >out looking the same regardless of the physical printer that produced the >document.

And you're right...

>Also, if so, the nasty implication is that when you design a report, you have >to know which printers will be used to create the report and make sure that >the report accommodates those printers.

You know, report file is an ordinary table. If you open it with command
"USE myreport.frx", in first record, in a memo field, you'll find the name of printer which you had in use at the time you've projected the report. Delete the name, and close the file...

>Thanks, Chaim

Thank you too...