I am not sure whether there are any free tools, apart from the ones you mention. My own version, as you saw, is designed for the programmer, and not for the end-user.

You can put up with the report designer, but it is difficult to allign objects correctly in text mode.

The designers of Crystal Reports also provide, or provided, a free tool called Seagate Analysis, IIRC. This allows the end-user to create his own reports, and even datacubes. An impressive tool, but I didn't try to do any text-mode stuff, and don't know whether it is supported.

Perhaps you can design your own report designer; something simple to program might not have a VISUAL designer like VFP, but a number of fields which the user can fill in. Then, you might use my class, or another similar tool, to do the actual printing. Actually, from what I saw briefly, I think the DOSPRINT3 class is more oriented towards creating templates, so perhaps it fulfills your needs better - but you will probably still have to do some additional programming to give the end-user the capability to create custom reports.

>I need report designer which allows end users to modify text reports.
>Those reports will output data to POS printers, creating plain ASCII text
>output.
>I need to define title, summary, detail and group bands.
>
>I tried the following:
>
>1. VFP REPORT ... TO ASCII output is incorrect
>2. There is no FoxPro DOS installed to create text based reports
>3. Hilmar Zonneveld TextPrint class does not have report designer
>4. Victor Espina DOSPRINT3 class does not have report designer
>
>Any idea how to desing/modify Text based reports easily ?
>
>Is it possible to use some free report builder for this ?