Recently upgraded to FM7 and hoped this problem would have gone away, but it is alive and kicking!

Using Arial 12 in a layout, an on screen preview looks ok, but a printout to any of the printers available here (HP (3 models), Xerox and Ricoh) all produce the same result, some random lines of text in a multiple page report lose words, the spaces remain for the words.

If I change to a different font then all is well on screen and printing, so what is so special about arial? Anyone found a way of taming this?

It sounds like a corrupt font. Try printing the same file from a different computer. If it's till bad then it may be a corrupt layout.

Make a new layout in the file, format it with Arial and try printing it.

If it's still bad then create a brand new file and test the font again.

I too had this problem. The preview looks good. But when printing to multiple printers and even adobe Acrobat, data gets lost in fields and or they get choped in half.

I had ported these databases from macintosh to win 2000 pc and win fmp servers. I belive the problem has to do with differences in pc graphics.

I found that when I croweded a list layout by sliding the bottom of the part right up to the field or underline for the row I would loose data from printed report. However, when I stayed 2 or 3 pixels below anything in the part with the bottom of the part it would print fine.

Hope this may be the solution you need...