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Chris Sobotkiewicz schrieb:
> 
>         Hello there. I am trying to fix an old program that was written in
> Borland Pascal 7. Here is a short description of my problem. We are printing
> out reports with Windows fonts etc. to a Device Context. In this report, there
> are some lines that have to be formatted into two columns (they are only one
> string though). The only problem is, the fonts aren't truetype, so the spaces
> between them in the ASCII string aren't lining up. Here is kind of what they
> look like on paper:
> 
> 1. United States        2. Iraq
> 3. India               3. Egypt
> 4. Canada              4. Russia
> 
> Like that. The columns aren't lined up. I can't figure out how to get them to
> line up. I'm using "TabbedTextOut" to print these out. I've tried adding ASCII
> tabs in the string (#7 in Pascal) 
     -----------------#9!!!!
but they just get printed out as boxes on
> the paper. "TabbedTextOut" mentions it can be called more than once to print
> to the same line. I've tried separating the ASCII string into two separate
> strings, and printing them both out separately, but only the first one gets
> printed out. Can anybody offer any suggestions? I'd appreciate it. If
> possible, please respond via email to cgsobotk@students.wisc.edu. Thanks much!

I had a similar problem years ago. I solved it with a somewhat irregular
approach:
First I generated a "template" file using WinWord. This file was saved
as RTF on a simple Textfile. The template had "&1" "&2" "&3" etc. at the
tab positions and these were substituted with a procedure by the actual
data. The result was another .RTF file with the actual data, which could
be loaded by WinWord again and printed.

This is a suggestion only.

Regards, Franz Glaser