>Believe I found the reason, the cause was embedded pictures some which >were jpg files with >rather heavy volume. You should make an recommendation as to what max >size to use. So despite >me having 32mb ram and plenty of free space, this caused the program to >generate very slowly and >skip generating the first page, when I removed that particular picture, >it generated ok, so now >I take alook into picture size in general to reduce size. Ah yes, I have tried to recommend that files be kept under 100K, preferabley more like 50K scanned in at about 3 inches high. I just did not recognize that this was the problem for you here. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com