>>I am using VFP3.0 on Win3.11. I've been trying to use the report designer to create reports
>>to print on an Epson LQ1170 ESC/P2 dot-matrix printer (132 columns) using the
>>Generic/Text Only printer driver (other drivers are too slow). But the report details
>>and headings often come out with wrong alignments..e.g. a single detail line gets
>>split into two separate lines or two detail line data prints on a single line (overwriting
>>one another).
>>
>>Can anyone please help. Is there a better way..I mean without having to rewrite
>>all my reports using codes instead of the report designer?
>>
>>Thank you.
>
>Ken,
>
>You can now add the ASCII clause to REPORT FORM. Please check what it can do for you.
>But digging a little more, I think that it has been added to VFP5, not 3.0
>
>José
It's in VFP3 as well. I have found it unsatisfactory for my landscape report which was not created with ASCII in mind. You can try it, but you may have the same problems. I would guess that any report which is going to be printed as text only must be arranged in such a way that whatever process converts it to text will not get confused about exact placement of report controls. That means pushing them around until they land in the right place.