General information
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Title:
Mega Bloat report output vfp9
Environment versions
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Hi Everyone,
I have a customer who's simple 2 to 5 page reports have bloated from about 1.2 mb (2 pager) under VFP7 to 140 mb under VFP9 using reports with a report listener. Supposedly using a listener automatically kicks the reports into "GDIPlus" mode - and they need the listener so I can't yank that.
I have updated the printer drivers on the server (Win 2000 server) and the GDIPlus.dll. It is wierd also that if I print the same report from an XP PC with the same GDIPlus.dll, the size runs about 35mb.
The users have all their print jobs "calculated" by a process on the server because they want to "tag" about a half dozen for a client and have them sent through to their network printer. With the increase in size, the server slowed to a crawl last week with a couple people sending 6 plus reports each - the server only has 4GB free space and these reports were running up to 250mb each and so the spooler was grabbing all the hard drive space.
How can I get the size down - oh, I tried dropping the resolution on the printer driver but then italizied characters were getting "skewed" so I have to stay up a full resolution.
TIA,
Albert
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