>Hi Everyone,
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>I have had to switch a client to using the new report writer and because of some funky things they wanted done, needed to use a report listener. This then automatically kicks VFP into using GDI+ - and the output becomes images instead of just text. Things worked not bad in test mode with a couple of users but as soon as it was put on the network, printing slowed to a crawl.
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>Users are printing "quotes" constantly, not just reports every now and then.
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>Traced it down to the fact that since these reports are now "images", that they are about 250mb per page (as seen through the printer queue monitor in Windows) instead of about 100k or something when these were the old "text style" printouts (non-image). With a bunch of users submitting a bunch of printouts all at once, the server slowed to a crawl, just about choked, and users printouts took forever to print (and then some were in the wrong page order i.e. if a single user submitted a few printouts all at once).
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>How do I get the size down? Is there any way to go back to "regular-'ol" text style printouts and still use a report listener?
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>Albert

I guess that Re: Mega Bloat report output vfp9 Thread #1197067 Message #1197107 solved this problem.