Discoverer Viewer - printing problems..

I have created a report where I want to "hide" the content of some columns. Some of the columns in the report are formated so that they have the font-color as the backgroud-color of the column - and therefore the content of the column does not show.
When printing from Plus or Desktop the report looks fine - it does not show any numbers/text in the columns that have same font-color as the background color.
The report looks fine in Viewer (on screen - even when shown in printer-friendly version), but when printing it - the formating seems to disapear... and the content of the columns are show on paper..
Does anybody know how to keep the color-fomating when printing form Viewer?

Hi
As luck would have it I posted something on hiding columns tonight in another thread. It might help here too, so here goes:
There are two ways that I know of, and there could be more, to hide a particular column in Viewer.
The simplest is to move the column to the far right of the report and then tell Viewer to only display n-1 columns, where n = the number of columns in the report. To do this, follow this workflow:
1. Click the Layout link
2. Use the Move option to move the column(s) you don't want to display to the right of the last item that you do want to display
3. Count the number of columns that you want to display
4. Click the Rows and Columns link
5. In Columns type in the number of columns that you want to display
6. Click the Go button
This second method works for tables and crosstabs that don't use Page Items. Use this workflow:
1. Click the Layout link
2. Click the More link
3. For the column(s) you want to hide, click the Up arrow alongside each one and move it to Page Items
4. Uncheck the box called Show Page Items
5. Click the Go button
I hope this helps
Regards
Michael

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