Hi! Thanks for your reply, even after using a Generic Printer, how do I tell the printer to print in 17cpi ?

Thanks

Anurag

>>From the VFP Reports can we send Escape codes to a dot matric printer ?
>>Thanks
>>Anurag Agarwal
>
>Hi Anurag,
>
>I think I owe you one answer for one of previouse threads
>on the same subject; (sorry I was on vacation)
>
>Answer is NO :-(
>
>You can do it PRIOR executing your frx and/or AFTER, but NOT WITHIN frx. You simply have to forget the ease of using variety of fonts, graphics, etc - which you have when you build report for laser printers, and like somebody also said -get ready to stand the pain.
>
> My friendly advise is to use Generic Text/Only driver
>and design dot matrix reports for Paper size: Ledger - 17 X 11 inch
>using the same font. For lines you hv to use long expresions with '__' or '---'
>You can get up to 135 characters per line in condensed mode (17cpi), very much alike good all dos reports and they will be printable on the waist majority of dot matrix printers - with little help of control codes sent prior/after executing frx.
>
>If you can aford it demand wise - you better FORGET bold, underlined,
>changing of line spacing on the fly an the rest of Dos (dot matrix printing) tips&tricks&techniques - it does not pay dividend here.
>
>Other then that, you can use coded reports just like in dos
>using SAY,?,?? but this is (as we know) far more time consuming.
>
>Ok, here is some smile :-))
>not to sound all bad.
>
>Good luck again...