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>>Hi everybody,
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>>I have couple of reports, which we're sending to PDF. The reports worked fine till today. Today all of the sudden some numeric fields show * instead of values. Nothing was recently installed on user's machines, besides, this problem could be replicated on each machine. I fixed several reports already by increasing the width of the field. In Preview I see them normally displayed. If I switch to PDF and then preview, I see asterics. It looks like the font (Times New Roman, 8) is a little bit bigger in PDF, than in Report.
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>>What may cause this strange problem?
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>A .PDF is not guaranteed to be an exact match of a document displayed or printed from its native application. Sounds like you've encountered one of the slight differences.
Al/Nadya
We also had a problem with the PDF writer doing strange things last year - really frustrating. There were a couple of threads about it some time ago and I seem to remamber that there was some issue about running reports to PDF quickly one after another. In the end we tried:
DECLARE _fpreset IN MSVCRT
=_fpreset()
...after each procedure and slowed down the process by placing the wait window command before calling the PDF writer each time....it seemed to fix it - but then again it seems to hand a mind of its own anyway.
Cheers
Chris Kable
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