proportional font issues

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Richard D. Williams wrote:

> When I set any font type, i.e. CG Times Font (Primary) and any size, it seems
> to be impossible to get things lined up because it is proportional.
> 
> Is there any way to stop this so it is easier to use these fonts on forms?

I believe the usual approach in filePro is to insert a printcode before 
each field; that printcode would do horizontal positioning. However, this 
doesn't address the need for right-justified numeric (or other) columns.

In Print Wizard, a long time ago, I added capabilities to use a special 
control character (FS = Field Separator), which PW would use as a signal 
to "resync" to the correct column number, based on a document-standard 
pitch. This feature never got a lot of buy-in that I know of, so it's a 
little rusty.

More recently, I've explored the idea of using an HTML-style table. Print 
Wizard has quite a bit of table logic available for use.

Anyone interested in exploring either of these techniques in Print Wizard, 
let me know.

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