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I'd like to add my tuppence worth in defense of the virtual SWA. I trialed Symantec, McAfee, Trend and Sophos recently, all virtual appliances in ESX5, and we felt that in spite of the apparent sophistication of its competitors, particularly in terms of granular policy management and reporting, the greatest strength of the SWA was its simplicity. SWA was far and away the quickest and easiest to deploy and configure and we were up and running in production inside 45 minutes. The admin GUI is among the cleanest and most intuitive I've used and, so far, browsing performance has been excellent. Sure, I wished that some of the bells and whistles I liked in the others were available in the Sophos solution, such as HTTP inspection policies or allowing blocked URL categories to be accessed with a password. In the end though these features were all icing. The Sophos appliance did everything we wanted a web gateway to do quickly, easily, competently and cost-effectively. So we picked it. I'm sorry that the OP had a bad experience, but I have to say, for an SMB/SME with limited administrative resources, Sophos' Web Protection should be given a fair go. Incidentally, I wanted to trial the Websense solution, but they don't have a VMWare image ready to deploy for the likes of us. I would have had to run up a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - along with all its attendant maintenance - as well as a finding a suitable Windows Server to host their heavy management and reporting software. I only mention it because my Websense rep was very heavy handed in his sales pitch and unashamedly damning of Sophos, claiming that it was nothing more than a URL filter, performing none of the traffic inspection that would qualify it as a true Web Security Gateway. This market, like many other security product markets, is subject to a lot of aggressive salesmanship and misinformation. As ever, be certain of the business requirement and capacity to deliver, do your research, evaluate as thoroughly as you can and take everything the salesmen say with a dose of salt.

I discovered that this was happening to me, too, while I was testing A3 printing from our Konica MFDs with a large WordArt object. Tried Adobe PDF printer, but to no avail. I experimented with layout, but this made no difference. Then I tried adding a border (Line Style) to the WordArt. It worked! Then I reset Line Style to 'None' again, i.e. back to the original state. Continued to work! Go figure. Hope this helps.