True, I was dealing with this problem last night...a report was taking several minutes to run, when it normally takes several seconds. Turns out the underlying pictures the factory sent us were all almost 1mb in size, when normally they are less than 10-20k each.

So i shrunk those bad boys :)

>Steve,
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>using a picture control is going to consume a lot more resources and radically increase the size of the printjob compared to using the font.
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>>That is easier...
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>>I guess the hardest part about mine is locating the images :)