I dinked with it some more, and it only seems to happen when I have a particular printer (HP laserjet 4600) selected.

>Russ -
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>>> Unable to read page layout information from report
>>> printer environment.
>>> Error: Unable to create device context. CreateIC() returned 0.
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>The builder uses the Win32 api call CreateIC() to interrogate the page layout information stored in the report header and also as reported by the default printer in VFP. The builder is reporting that the call returned 0 which means an error occurred interpreting the binary data structure.
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>Does this happen on every machine you have access to? If you change VFP's default printer, do you see the same thing? Does the report have an environment saved with it?
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>I know this code has been tightened up somewhat since the the public beta.
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>- Colin