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Data loss in REPORT TO FILE ASCII
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23/01/2003 13:43:51
 
 
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23/01/2003 13:36:55
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00743134
Message ID:
00744809
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Andrus,

While I seriously doubt that it might help, have you tried playing with SET PRINTER in any way? Maybe just "SET PRINTER TO" or "SET PRINTER TO filename".

good luck


>I see data loss also using the following drivers:
>
>HP LJ3100
>Jaws PDF Writer
>
>I have no control of the printer drivers installed in my customers and cannot force them to install new printers: they don't have windows disks and rights to add a printer.
>I still want to use REPORT TO FILE ASCII in my distribute application.
>
>Any idea ?
>Is this FoxPro bug ?
>
>>I see data lost if current VFP driver (? SET("printer",3)) is Generic/Text driver regardless of windows default driver. There's no data loss if current VFP driver isn't Generic/Text driver. You can issue SET PRINTER TO NAME < printer other than Generic/Text > prior to printing to avoid data loss.
>>
>>>Sergey,
>>>
>>>Can you add a Generic/text only printer to a set of printers,
>>>set it as default printer and re-run your test ?
>>>
>>>I noticed that this occurs only with some printer drivers.
>>>
>>>Any idea how to force REPORT TO ASCII not to depend on the default printer driver ?
>>>
>>>>Andrus,
>>>>
>>>>I run your test under VFP7SP1 and VFP8 under Win2KSP3 and don't see any data loss. Here're my results:

>>< snip >
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