BUG: 2.x @ SAY Report May Print Differently in Visual FoxPro (151767)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0b
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0a
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 6.0
This article was previously published under Q151767 SYMPTOMS
An @ SAY report may print differently in Visual FoxPro than it did when
printed from FoxPro for Windows. The spacing in the report may be different
and items may be shifted in different positions. This problem is most
likely to occur when different fonts are used in the same line.
CAUSE
FoxPro for Windows shipped a font called FOXPRINT.TTF used as the default
print font for any report using @ SAYs or question marks. It uses this font
to determine the row and column of the @ SAY. The FOXPRINT.TTF does not
ship with Visual FoxPro, but it still looks for the font to be the default
print font. When the font is not found, Windows does a font substitution
that may have a different font matrix than FOXPRINT.TTF, putting the same
row and column in a different position on the page.
WORKAROUND- Install the FOXPRINT.TTF and FOXPRINT.FOT font files from FoxPro for
Windows into the Windows system subdirectory.
-or-
- Use the SET PRINT FONT command to set the default print font to a font
that you know is on the system. This would mean a rewrite of the row and
column of the @ SAYs to have the items line up as they were in FoxPro
for Windows.
For more information about the SET PRINT FONT command, please see the
following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
99621 Changing Font Used in Print Commands in FP for Windows
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem
and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it
becomes available.
Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 5/12/2003 |
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Keywords: | kbBug kbprint KB151767 |
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