>Can anybody tell how can i print a Visual FOx report in the COMPRESSED FORMAT we used to use in MSDOS.
>I tried diferent fonts and size, but i could find a similar compressed format.
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>What i really want is to print a 32 columns report, but all the columns do not fit in the Visual fox report.
>But when i was using Dbase for MSDOS, the same 32 column report fit well and there was still space left.
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>Please give me a solution.
>I am using two lines for the detail band to workaround the problem.
I've tweaked the Transformer which came with 5.0 to use Arial Narrow and do a different calculation of widths and horizontal offsets if the line in DOS report was wider than 80 chars. Worked fine, but even with that I never had much luck with a report which used more than 132 chars per line. Simply had to redo those manually - the objects in the converted report went way beyond the right margin, so I had to change the report's paper size to wide enough to get these fields, moved them to the next detail line and the reverted to standard paper.
I.e. it's a hassle, but it's feasible.