I'm on Mac OS X using FM 10 Adv. I have a client that needs a
particular font for printouts they give to customers, but FM always
displays the font with the top two pixels of the top line chopped
off. I've tried the following solutions:

1. Make field taller than the space needed to display font. This
doesn't change the cropping problem even when the field is much
taller.

2. Set vertical text alignment to Center. This solves the problem,
but aligning text to vertical center defeats sliding, which is
necessary for their printouts.

3. Change line spacing in paragraph format dialog for "Height,"
"Above" and "Below" settings, both individually and in combinations.
None of these have any effect on the top line problem.

4. Change font size. No effect.

5. Create a calculation field for each field I want to display that
adds a 2-pt return character before the first character of the field
it's displaying. This works, but really? Do I have to make an extra
field for every field I want in a report? Seems like a lot of extra
work administratively.

So any suggestions? This font is very much a part of the client's
brand, so I hate to have to go back to them and say, "Sorry, I can't
figure out how to get the top two pixels of the top row to display, so
you'll have to pick something else." On the other hand, I'm not to
crazy about option 5 either. If there's a formatting trick that
someone knows, I'd love to try it. Hit me up!

Thanks for all your help.

Best,
-J.

"jahn" <jahnbigbooty (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

About the only other thing I can think of is to check that the field is not
using a white border. A field set to have a white border might clip the top
of the contents if the border is "printed" on top of the contents.

Other than that, try a different font and see if the same thing happens
(and/or try the files on another computer with the same font) ... it really
sounds like a font problem to me, possibly a corrupt font file or badly made
font.

Helpfull Harry )

Hi, Harry -

Thanks for the recommendation. The field is formatted without border
and other fonts display without any problem. It may be that it's a
poorly designed font, or possibly that I've got a bad copy of it.
I'll have my client run a test file on their computer and see what
happens.

Thanks again.

-J.