Printing from Excel I have the same problem: printing speed. I need these characteristics for reports: nice looking, excel version, and fast printing. If I want the 3 of them I have to create 2 versions: one for nice printing, and one in ASCII exportable to Excel.
You would say: why not one only in ASCII exportable to Excel (user can use Excel for nice formatting? Answer is: not everyone has Excel, and more important is that users that use the nice option with laser or ink don't want the extra step of going through Excel and configuring pages headers and footers, bolds and sizes, ...

>I didn't need this so far; but you might adapt the part that produces output to Excel, and print directly from Excel.
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>Some conditional coding may be required in my class, to format the Excel part neatly.
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>>The problem with long reports (I mean from 50 pages on approx) is cost of printing in a laser or ink printer. So a lot of users would want to print them in a dot matrix printer and you have a new problem: time.
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>>For a lot of countries this is not a problem, since most businesses don't have a matrix printer. But in Chile most businesses have one because you need one to print legal invoices (they are reviewed and stamped by the IRS).
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>>When I said that frx2any is slow I did not mean printing time, I meant report generating time, this is why I discarded using it. I checked your classes for generating ASCII and Excel reports and indeed I liked them.
>>What I finally have is: I like and need the good looking reports in Windows fonts, and I also need the fast printing (and Excel viewable) solution, so ideally I should generate both interfaces, one with the report writer and the other with the aid of you classes. It's going to be double the work, but I don't see another solution.
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>>Best,
>>Javier.
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>>PD: I saw your address in Bolivia, so I suposed you were proficiency in Spanish (great!)
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>Well, I was born in Germany, but I live in Bolivia most of my life.