>>>>One of my users has a slow 486. Large report previews seem to burden the system. If I add a bitmap and make it big in order to make the detail finer, will that make things much worse? The bitmap will only appear on a few of the pages, probably. There are already about a hundred controls. Given that, about how big can the bitmap be before it can be expected to make things worse?
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>>>It might be better for you to create custom font with 'very big' font size and use standard report object.
>>I was cleaning out old threads and found this. I always meant to ask you: how would I do this?
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>Ok. You should look at Win32api functions, such as CreateFont and SelectObject.
Thanks. I shall.