[Gambas-user] About Printer

[Demosthenes Koptsis]

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 15:40 +0200, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> > Benoit,
> > 
> > Paint.scale work good if there is not text ..; but if there is ...
> > then text font size is increased by the scale too
> > 
> 
> This is normal. This it the goal of that matrix: everything is scaled. I added 
> a remark about that on the "How to print" wiki page.

> Regards,
> 

At "How to print" page says:

Consequently, if a 10 points font is a good size for drawing text on the
screen, it may be too big for the paper: as the printer resolution is
far greater than the screen resolution, you usually print things
smaller.

We know that Desktop.Resolution uses 12 points Font, for example
Also we know Printer.Resolution, so  X points Font should be on printer.

I made an example
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' Gambas class file

Public Sub Button1_Click()

    If Not Printer1.Configure() Then
    Printer1.Count = 1
    Printer1.FullPage = True
    Printer1.Print
    Endif
    
End

Public Sub Printer1_Draw()
  
  Dim X As Float
  Dim Y As Float
  Dim W As Float
  Dim H As Float
  Dim hFactor As Float
  Dim wFactor As Float
  
  hFactor = Paint.Height / Printer1.PaperHeight
  wFactor = Paint.Width / Printer1.PaperWidth
  
  Paint.Scale(wFactor, hFactor)
  
  'Set brush
  Paint.Brush = Paint.Color(Color.RGB(255, 0, 0, 0))
  Paint.LineWidth = 0.45
  
  'Set origin 0,0
  X = 0
  Y = 0
  
  'Set width, height of printing area
  W = Printer1.PaperWidth - Paint.LineWidth
  H = Printer1.PaperHeight - Paint.LineWidth
  
  'Draw printing area with red rectangle
  Paint.Rectangle(X, Y, W, H)
  Paint.Stroke
  
  'Draw font  
  Paint.MoveTo(10, 10 + Paint.TextExtents("toto").Height)
  Paint.Font.Name = "Times New Roman"
  Paint.Font.Size = 12 * (Desktop.Resolution / Printer1.Resolution)
  Paint.Text("toto")
  Paint.Fill
  
End
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You know allreay the code but check out the line
Paint.Font.Size = 12 * (Desktop.Resolution / Printer1.Resolution)

i think this line prints a good 12 points font on a pdf as i see.
Compare the result with an OpenOffice pdf. It has good success.

i attach the project.


-- 
Regards,
Demosthenes
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