Liveware Publishing Support Forum

I want to use a simple R&R report developed for printing a label to a label printer in a shipping department. It would print from a single record table which was prepared using Visual Foxpro 8. The need is for speed, where the shipper scans from a work order and the label should immediately print.____My problem is, when running an R&R report within VFP, there is a sizeable delay before the report is generated. I am reluctant to using the VFP native report writer mainly because I have grown accustomed to the R&R interface. But printing from VFP with its native report writer is immediate, no delay, perfect timing.____Here^s my big question, with fingers crossed that there is a positive answer. Is there a way to get R&R to perform instantly? Is there any tip or trick that will make this possible, or at least close to possible so the shipping department won^t curse the delay.____Thank you for your considered response.____Jeff

Add the line:____PDFDRIVER=0____to the DEFAULTS section of your c:windowsRRW.INI file and see if that helps.____Kathleen__R&R Support

I tried this and so far it seems to have made a significant positive improvement. I need to test further, but this might make the difference. Thank you.____Jeff

I^ve had a chance to test this more, and it seems to improve report start-up time significantly.____I have a couple questions.____1. If there is no rrw.ini file on a computer because only the runtime files were installed, will adding an rrw.ini file to c:windows with just the two lines [Defaults] and PDFDRIVER=0 be effective in speed improvement on that computer.____2. The name "PDFDRIVER" suggest some effect on the creation of PDF reports from R&R. I^m wondering if you lose anything by adding the line PDFDRIVER=0, especially regarding any negative effect on creation of PDF files.____3. Is there anything about the new revision to R&R Reportworks that would contribute to, or take away from, runtime performance?____Thank you.____Jeff