My legacy code generates a lot of long reports targeted at printers that used mono-spaced fonts to get all the column alignments right.

Usually this was Courier.

I would rather print to PDF as most of these reports are reviewed and disposed of almost immediately.

I am moving the system to Windows and have found that I can print to PDF using the built in "Microsoft Print to PDF" driver. The problem is that they print with a proportional font and the columns don't line up and a few characters on a few lines go off the right side of the page. I would guess the font is Arial.

Is there a config file that I can edit/create to change this font?

I know there are 3rd party tools that bring in a whole slew of additional features, but that would require me to review and edit dozens of reports.

Thanks,

Brian

My legacy code generates a lot of long reports targeted at printers that used mono-spaced fonts to get all the column alignments right.

Usually this was Courier.

I would rather print to PDF as most of these reports are reviewed and disposed of almost immediately.

I am moving the system to Windows and have found that I can print to PDF using the built in "Microsoft Print to PDF" driver. The problem is that they print with a proportional font and the columns don't line up and a few characters on a few lines go off the right side of the page. I would guess the font is Arial.

Is there a config file that I can edit/create to change this font?

I know there are 3rd party tools that bring in a whole slew of additional features, but that would require me to review and edit dozens of reports.

Thanks,

Brian

Brian,

I was able to get Microsoft Print to PDF to use a monospace font (not Courier) as follows:

Printers & Scanners =>Microsoft Print to PDF=> Printer properties.  This brings up a dialog box.

Click on Change Properties (Admin permission).  Another dialog box.

Click on Advanced tab. Click on Print Processor.  Select TEXT under Default data type.  Click OK/OK.

My legacy code generates a lot of long reports targeted at printers that used mono-spaced fonts to get all the column alignments right.

Usually this was Courier.

I would rather print to PDF as most of these reports are reviewed and disposed of almost immediately.

I am moving the system to Windows and have found that I can print to PDF using the built in "Microsoft Print to PDF" driver. The problem is that they print with a proportional font and the columns don't line up and a few characters on a few lines go off the right side of the page. I would guess the font is Arial.

Is there a config file that I can edit/create to change this font?

I know there are 3rd party tools that bring in a whole slew of additional features, but that would require me to review and edit dozens of reports.

Thanks,

Brian