Well, thanks for your wise-acre response, Colin. <g> I simply didn't have enough inclination (or time) to look for that. I just thought Cathy might have known something off the top of her head, but obviously she hadn't felt the desire (or need) to dig deeper on that, either.

Russell

>Hey Russell -
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>it seemed I had to make the fields a good bit wider and I didn't think that it would have affected it quite that much. I was expecting only a fairly miniscule change. Do you know the reason for this? It would seem they could make the newer technology draw the same characters in the same abount of space
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>I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine, Google. Google told me to go here:
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>http://support.microsoft.com/?id=307208
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>Particularly with regard to the explanation of "How GDIPlus Compensates for Grid Fitting" and the example of the concatenated "w"s.
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>Google is an invaluable research tool.
>(removes tongue from cheek)
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>Regards
>- Colin