Bryon,
I read the messages in your thread...and the info in the MS knowledge base...
I've a similar problem (in 2.6a - rectangles layered over BMPs) and I was wondering if you ever got this resolved?

Rick
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>I have several 2.6 reports with opaque text fields.
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>The text prints fine under Windows 3.1 but print as black rectangles under Win95 and NT.
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>Opaque data fields work properly, it is just the hard-coded text that is giving me problems.
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>Changing the fields to transparent fixes the problem, but I inherited some executibles without source code, which makes rebuilding the applications impossible.
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>Any suggestions on ways to get the hard-coded text to print properly?