Character mode report font size

i am using oracle 10g DS, and i have created character mode report as discribed in report builder help.
i have set font to
courier new (central europien), regular, 8
as descibed in help "10. Choose Format > Font, and select the font, style, and size that most closely
approximates the character-mode font. For example, Courier, Regular, 12
points.
but my output font on printed page is pritty big.
how can i set size of font printed, it seems to me that this setting has no affect?
also i dont get all the caracet displaud corectly, is this set in uifont.ali conf file
thanks and regards
rade

can anybody help me with this?
i have read that font size for character mode reports can be set in prt files.
i am using dflt.prt
i want to change font size to eg. 8 and to print font condensed, but i was enable to find any online manual how to do this, please advise me or supply url with relevant manual for editing prt files.
thanks and regards
rade

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: Hi,
: We design a character mode report to print on a matrix
: printer.(Reports 2.5)
: According to documentation, when we set
: report properties->Character Mode->Report Width-Height
: reports previewer chooses a suitable font at previewer.
: This font is usually hard to read at first. Especially,
: when width/height is large like 132*66. On every run,
: user has to use the magnifiaction tools. But, in some
: of the PCs, Reports can choose a suitable font that is
: readable, due to different font settings of the PCs.
: Is there a way to change the deafult font chosen by the
: previewer on character mode reports?*
: * Changing the font at layout editor is useless.
: Have a nice day.
null

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