Controlling Font Size in Character Mode Reports

Hi,
The default Font size of Character mode Reports is 12. I want to reduce the font size from 12 to 8 .How to go about it.The printer codes mentioned in reports Documentation only talk about other attributes like Bold etc.Also the documentation gave the impression that The fontsize can only be controlled for Bitmap reports.Kindly help me out.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Deepak

Deepak:
The font size for character reports is based in the printer size characters, there are: 10, 12 15 20 etc.
I believe that you want is a smaller character, try to configure your printer with condensed font in the panel of the printer, if you can't do that, try send printer codes to the printer via printer definition file.
For the printer code that you need, check the user's manual of the printer to know what code is that you need.
Look for commands in your manual
Good luck.
Ennio

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