VFP 9 Report gibberish

Has anyone else had trouble with SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 90 printing gibberish
either to a printer or to a PDF print driver? I was able to make the printer
work by changing to a generic HP LaserJet III driver, but I still get black
boxes instead of text for the Amyuni 2.50 PDF print driver and random
alphanumerics for the Adobe Acrobat 4.0 print driver. I've turned off the
Save Printer Settings checkbox, but no difference. The reports work fine with
SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 80. Any suggestions?

Jacob
Thu Jun 23 19:59:13 CDT 2005

I should have stayed with Crystal. I thought the Reporting Issues
were fixed in VFP 9? Jeez, create 3 labels and try and align them to
the right... Looks great on the screen, but when you print they are
all over the place.

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:36:19 -0700, Devers
<Devers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Has anyone else had trouble with SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 90 printing gibberish
>either to a printer or to a PDF print driver? I was able to make the printer
>work by changing to a generic HP LaserJet III driver, but I still get black
>boxes instead of text for the Amyuni 2.50 PDF print driver and random
>alphanumerics for the Adobe Acrobat 4.0 print driver. I've turned off the
>Save Printer Settings checkbox, but no difference. The reports work fine with
>SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 80. Any suggestions?

Mike
Thu Jun 23 22:28:10 CDT 2005


"Devers" <Devers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9AE4980B-6D24-4605-BC65-659AA6AA7F51@microsoft.com...
> Has anyone else had trouble with SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 90 printing gibberish
> either to a printer or to a PDF print driver? I was able to make the
> printer
> work by changing to a generic HP LaserJet III driver, but I still get
> black
> boxes instead of text for the Amyuni 2.50 PDF print driver and random
> alphanumerics for the Adobe Acrobat 4.0 print driver. I've turned off the
> Save Printer Settings checkbox, but no difference. The reports work fine
> with
> SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 80. Any suggestions?

90 was not ready for prime time for sure!

Devers
Fri Jun 24 13:26:03 CDT 2005

Amyuni has a work-around, if using their ActiveX control then set
SimPostscript = .T. and almost all of the text is fixed. I haven't figured
out the equivalent for Acrobat 4 or 6. Since the report output with
REPORTBEHAVIOR 90 is basically a huge bitmap, the PDF file sizes are
outrageously big. (6 kb for 1 page in 80 mode, 190 kb for the same page in 90
mode.) I think I'm going to abandon 90 mode for PDF files.

"Devers" wrote:

> Has anyone else had trouble with SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 90 printing gibberish
> either to a printer or to a PDF print driver? I was able to make the printer
> work by changing to a generic HP LaserJet III driver, but I still get black
> boxes instead of text for the Amyuni 2.50 PDF print driver and random
> alphanumerics for the Adobe Acrobat 4.0 print driver. I've turned off the
> Save Printer Settings checkbox, but no difference. The reports work fine with
> SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 80. Any suggestions?

Paul
Sat Jun 25 14:17:17 CDT 2005

I had such a problem with a Lexmark inkjet, but only with landscape
orientation and only with reportbehavior = 90.

It works OK with a Brother laser printer.



"Devers" <Devers@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9AE4980B-6D24-4605-BC65-659AA6AA7F51@microsoft.com...
> Has anyone else had trouble with SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 90 printing gibberish
> either to a printer or to a PDF print driver? I was able to make the
> printer
> work by changing to a generic HP LaserJet III driver, but I still get
> black
> boxes instead of text for the Amyuni 2.50 PDF print driver and random
> alphanumerics for the Adobe Acrobat 4.0 print driver. I've turned off the
> Save Printer Settings checkbox, but no difference. The reports work fine
> with
> SET REPORTBEHAVIOR 80. Any suggestions?