id10t, I hear what you are saying. It makes absolute sense. In fact it's what I would do!
However (Strath44 please correct me if I'm wrong) from the posts it does sound as if the company (for better or worse) is more interested in some sort of patch as opposed to a complete paradigm shift (got my Dilbert vocabulary in for the day) of their field paperwork procedure. Hence that is why I proposed utilizing something quite likely already there, the scaling function when printing out.