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Execption error in GDI.EXE when printing reports/labels
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19/07/1999 08:21:01
 
 
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19/07/1999 07:38:29
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00243014
Message ID:
00243020
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>At random intervals, perhaps 2-3 times per day, VFP5 crashes and shows an exception fault in GDI.EXE when the user is attempting to print a report.
>
>Is always seems to be printing to the same printer when this error occurs, Panasonic KPX2023 Quiet, but this is also the printer that is used the most, it may not be related to the printer !?!? I have installed the latest drivers for that printer, they come with 95, but to no avail.
>
>GDI.EXE is related to the graphics display interface, the video card, so it's rather strange that Foxpro crashes in this fashion.
>

GDI is the Graphic Device Interface; both the printer and video drivers are intimately involved in it, and possibly some other graphic rendering hardware like ploters, scanners, screen readers and the like have hooks in the GDI.
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