Changing Font Size for Reports

When printing a report, you might have experienced a problem with the font size being so small you can't read it, or way too large.  Or you might end up with the report spread over two pages when it could have fit on one page if it used a slightly smaller font.

There are basically 3 settings that affect the font size for reports.  All of these settings are in File / Printing Options / Reports.

The Zoom percentage allows you to manually adjust the font size, so you can tweak it if the "normal", or 100% zoom, is a little too small or too large.

However, the zoom percentage is ignored if the option "Fit output to page horizontally" is checked.  This is usually what causes the print to be very tiny -- if your report has many columns, it will shrink the text so it fits across the page.  There is also a shortcut to turning this on and off right in the File menu.

If you also have "Allow stretching to the full width" checked, then it could cause the font to be excessively large for reports with few columns.  This option is not usually desired, it's mainly for special cases.

If you do prefer trying to fit the report across one page for easy reading, then you can select the "Fit to page" option but reduce the number of columns printed.  On the Rack view, check the "Show Range" box to limit the columns to the date range you enter.  On the other views, you can disable almost any column you don't need printed by clicking the Options button at the top of the report.  For other dialog-based reports, for instance in Find Reservations, you can't disable columns but you can shrink them to nothingness by dragging the right side of the column header (you'll see the cursor change to a double arrow when you're in the correct position to drag the column divider).