Arial font does not preview correctly

[jimoo]

I have a client that just upgraded to VFP 8 (we may go to 9 soon) and the print-preview for arial fonts show up as garbage. The report prints correctly.

This does not occur on the older version (VFP 5) of the system and using the same XP box. They updated the drivers for my graphics card, downloaded all Microsoft updates and even installed XP service pack 2, but still have this problem -- only with foxpro reports

Any seen anything like this or have any opinions on this?

Jim Osieczonek
Delta Business Group, LLC

http://www.deltabg.com

 

[Mike Lewis]

Jim,

I've never heard of this before.

To narrow down the cause, how about if you reformat the report in a different font? If that works, it will at least tell you if the font is to blame, or something in the report viewer.

Mike

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[mspratt]

Hi Jim,

This weekend I had a similar problem. Preview looked like crap, but print was OK. Turned out to be a glitch in his User Profile. Default printer got switched to a Epson dot matrix. Report was designed for a HP Laser.

Regards,

Mike

 

[jimoo]

Mike Lewis - I changed the font to courier & a few others and it worked fine. The problem appears to be arial, but I an don't think I tried TS so it could be a non-proportional font problem.

Mspratt - I was thinking along the same line and deleted the print driver info (per Ramani's FAQ - How to hack FRX file to strip printer driver information
faq184-581) and that did not work. I ran the program interactively (startup.prg) from the client after open and saving the report. You may be on to something with reselecting the report and saving it again. Although the hacking of reports should have taken care of this - maybe it did not.



Jim Osieczonek
Delta Business Group, LLC

http://www.deltabg.com

 

[Mike Lewis]

Jim,

Not sure if this applies to VFP 8.0, but are you using the right script? Remember, Arial, TNR and a some other fonts now come with multiple scripts for different code pages. There might be a setting for that in the Font dialogue.

Just a shot in the dark.

Mike


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My sites:
Visual FoxPro (www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk)
Crystal Reports (www.ml-crystal.com)

 

[jimoo]

Thanks Mike.

Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the problem. I will build a runtime verison and install it on another pc in the office to see if I can isolate it to at least one pc. Maybe it's a situation where the fonts need to be reinstalled or something goofy like that.



Jim Osieczonek
Delta Business Group, LLC

http://www.deltabg.com