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FIX: Report Designer changes font from Wingdings to the default font

Article ID: 166377

Article Last Modified on 2/11/2005

Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a

This article was previously published under Q166377

SYMPTOMS

If the you use the Wingdings font in a report, the font is changed to the default Report Designer font when the report is previewed.

NOTE: Other fonts that have a script of "Symbol" as the Wingdings font seems to act in the same manner as described above.

This behavior does not occur in Visual FoxPro 5.0 for Windows.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 97 Service Pack 3.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

170365 INFO: Visual Studio 97 Service Packs - What, Where, and Why

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Open a table to be used for a Quick Report.
Create a Quick Report in the Report Designer.
Select one or more objects on the report and change the font to Wingdings.
Preview the report and notice that any object with the Wingdings font has reverted to the report default font (usually Arial).

NOTE: The selected font remains as Wingdings, but the displayed font is different.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbvs97sp2fix kbprb KB166377