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Data loss in REPORT TO FILE ASCII
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01/03/2004 16:59:36
 
 
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01/03/2004 12:42:04
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00743134
Message ID:
00882178
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>>>>>If you read the rest of the thread you would see that my statement isn't entirely correct. Andrus found out that some other printer drivers, besides the Generic/Text driver, cause the same problem.
>>>>
>>>>I found other drivers with problems too, but describing the workaround is still very helpful, so thanks anyway.
>>>>
>>>>The question then becomes how to install programmatically a fake printer with a driver that's appropriate for the workaround and that is sure to be present in every Windows machine.
>>>
>>>Alex,
>>>
>>>the other solution is to modify the frx2doc utility to create a
>>>frx2txt utility.
>>
>>Thank you Andrus. I decided that sonce only some of my users use matrix printers we'll install a fake safe printer manually.
>
>Alex, data loss depends also from the number of records.
>If there are more records, it start to occur for the reports which
>work ok with smaller number of records.
>I think that some rounding errors will summarize.

Ugh! Can you give more details, please? Hopefully in a few months VFP9 will fix all this.

>Which printer driver do you plan to use ?

Since I've had good experience with HP Laserjet 1100 (MS) and it comes with Windows I plan on using that one.

Alex
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