Hey, all of me hopes it works.  True i did have fun with it but my code is far from perfect.

I will be a little annoyed with myself if the RichText box idea proves to work in a webpage environment.  That was a lot of work if something better already exists...

Hi Ian, thanks for your comments they really add value to this thread.  You have some idea's in there which I didn't think of.

As far as setting up the printers...

Hi Min and jkli,

  I always like helping others out.  I have received enough support throughout my life that I like handing out some assistance myself every once in a...

Hi alzdba,

  I have never tried taking a screen shot in .net.  Here is a link on how to do it but I does appear that you will need to...

       ' Create object, passing in text

        Dim MyPrintObject As...

I think it could be made a much better product if they would eliminate/autofill many of the choices for us.  If they had a link on the sql site that...

I have a question on performance.  Does anyone know whether making the SQL server do the encryption work is faster than having .NET do it?  This is of course assuming...

This is great, I have been trying to figure out why

select * from OPENDATASOURCE('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',

 'Data Source=\\remotecomputer\c$\folder;Extended Properties="Text;HDR=No;FMT=Delimited"')...testfile#txt

or

select * from OpenRowset('MSDASQL', 'Driver={Microsoft Text Driver (*.txt; *.csv)};

  DefaultDir=\\remotecomputer\c$\folder;','select * from

testfile.txt')

or

BULK INSERT Northwind.dbo.mytest FROM...

oh, ok.  Thanks for clearing me up.

I think the biggest and most misleading problem with this question is the fact that it say's characters when it is referring to bytes.

The answer is 2^31-1 bytes not 2^31-1 characters.

Another update, I have perfected the variable character spacing problem when the font size and type changed.  Add the following line somewhere above The 'Static i As Integer' line:

Ok, I have found the problem.  Apparently Microsoft has a bug in their e.Graphics.MeasureString function.  To remidy this re-organize the primary if block like this:

If...

I have noticed a major flaw in this code.  It prints great when using the Tahoma font, but anything else seems to really mess it up.

Very nice, now see if you can move them to a cabinate that looks like it will soon be in someone elses way