Hi John,

I will take a look and see if the older HP4 drivers work better - that is actually what I have at the workstation where the client has me do their development work and it was never an issue during development.

Thanks,

Albert

>>Hi Everyone,
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>TIA,
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>>Albert
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>Albert,
>I assume you are talking about the spooled print file size. My experience is that the file size is dependent on the printer. If you are printing a color report to an ink jet printer the files will be huge. If you are printing a report in black and white to a laser using the old HP 4 drivers the file size is about 10,000 bytes per page. We use the old HP 4 drivers when our customers print "over the wire" using PC Anywhere or other type software.
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>I would suggest you try and find an earlier driver for your printer such as a driver for a printer with less features. I don't think the problem is in VFP.