Thanks Naomi,

I have read my way through the thread. Looks like he was into the same issue as me but does not sound like it got resolved. I will try the other solution posted here to see if rolling back to an older HP 4 printer cuts down the size. It is a real mystery though in one way why printing from my development machine with the HP2430 print drivers is about 1/4 the size of when I print it from the server using the "more or less" same print drivers.

Thanks,

Albert

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>>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