I found a very strange workaround, at least for indicators: if the data is wired to a local variable instead of the terminal, the indicators look well.
This is strange and i did not found any document explaining this in detail.
Property modes DO NOT WORK in LV RT when no display (remote or local) is activated.
I've spent a hundred hours figuring this out the hard way -- you'd think that all the objects would point to a NULL device and allow the LV programmer to read/write properties and expect that what is written can be read back -- but NOOOOOOOO -- not LabView.
I've never liked LV hardcopy output, I got around these types of problems by using TeX and PS -- beautiful results AND portable.