Migrated from Mac to PC now can't print or preview

[alawyn]

Hi everyone, this is my first post. Here at work they forced us to change from Mac to PC (using FPro 7). We had a bunch of databases developed on the Mac. They work on the PC except for horrible printing problems. Most of the time what looks OK on screen prints out scaled way differently, with lots of stuff chopped off. My experience is that the first time I preview a report it looks OK. Then I print it, it comes out all screwed up and afterwards the preview on screen is all jagged and screwed up. Our PC-newbie systems admins set up a postscript printer for us to use so we could play with the scaling, but it still doesn't work consistently. It appears that FPro just can't communicate consistently with the printer or with the screen preview. It's all a big random crap shoot. Sometimes it works (e.g. if I scale it way way down) and more often is doesn't.

I tried re-creating the report layouts from scratch (i.e. I didn't copy and paste anything), but that didn't help. On some printers we can scale, but that doesn't help consistently either. Has anyone had experience with platform migration from Mac to PC? Is there any solution other than completely re-writing all those databases from scratch or re-writing them in Access ?

TIA

[Lee Smith]

This topic has come up in the past several times. Do a search for your Keywords [color:blue] +Font +Platform +Difference

This recent thread Here should get you started.

HTH

Lee

[alawyn]

Thanks Lee. I did do a search, but didn't use the right keywords.