>>>>>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 ?
>>>>
>>>>Andrus,
>>>>
>>>>What's the problem with the VFP report designer's output. You say it's incorrect, but don't say why.
>>>
>>>George,
>>>
>>>repro code is in www.eetasoft.ee/dataloss.zip
>>>
>>>Unpack and run dataloss.prg
>>
>>Andrus,
>>
>>I'd be happy to, but without your saying what the problem is, I don't know what I'm looking for.
>
>George,
>
>the problem is that sometimes (depending on the printer driver, amount of data and operation system and maybe also about something) sometimes lines are truncated.
>
>For example, the sample code should produce
>
>#19
>47296280926
>Bjorn Andersen
>SWE
>
>but produces
>
>#19
>47296280926
>SWErn Andersen
>
>You see that the third and fourth lines are merged together.
>This repro has been discussed some time ago in UT and
>there were some replys from Sergey Berezniker
>
>I report this to Microsoft and this has been entered into Microsoft system. The Bug Tracking number for this issue is 57146.

Andrus,

This looks like a driver issue to me. VFP, like all other Windows apps relies on the printer driver for printing and rendering the output.