Microsoft KB Archive/151767

= BUG: 2.x @ SAY Report May Print Differently in Visual FoxPro =

Article ID: 151767

Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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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.

Additional query words: kbvfp300 kbvfp500 kbvfp600

Keywords: kbbug kbprint KB151767

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