After the debacle we all experienced years ago with the HP problem in VFP 3.0, I have a hard time believe the Microsoft would once again punish us on reporting performance. Yeah, the new features are cool to use but it is kind of like driving around in a brand spankin' new Porsche that maxes out at 30 miles per hour (48.28 km/hr!). So, what is going on with this and who signed me up for this torture?

I have a report that in VFP 7 PREVIEWS (not even send it to the printer) in less than 2 seconds. The same report in 90 previews in a "smoke a cigarette" 262 (4 minutes, 22 seconds). Even running in 80 takes a long time. No pictures, no graphics, just text. There are some formulas that call VFP programs to retrieve data, etc. but it isn't anything major.

In addition, if the user actually wants to PRINT, under 80 or 90 it sends a page, waits until the printer prints a page, sends another page, waits, etc. Crazy. Yes...the printer setting is set to spool so don't think i'm trippin out. The only thing that is "unique" is it is a local printer (wow) being sent over a LPT cable. Even printing over a network takes awhile. For those of you interested, the file size under 90 is 3.37 MB and under 7.0 it is 268kb.

My users are royally ticked because they don't understand the "well you should see what this thing really CAN do". Don't get me wrong, I love VFP but this is absolutely crazy. Are there any solutions, tips, payoffs to this debacle or did i miss something in the help file?

Thanks for the help and have a good day-

Geoff