[Gambas-user] Printing colors in PDF

Gianluigi bagonergi at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 23:46:18 CEST 2018


It's not strange, if your printer is configured forgray scale printing...
Leaving out configure, you get the default configuration.

Regards
Gianluigi

2018-07-14 23:34 GMT+02:00 Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-sse at osnanet.de>:

> I found something: When I leave out .Configure like you did, and define
> everything including the PDF file, then it prints colors.
>
> Strange though...
>
> Rolf
>
>
>
> Am 14.07.2018 um 23:01 schrieb Gianluigi:
>
> This code work to me.
>
> Public Sub Button1_Click()
>
>   With Printer1
>     'If you insert configure you can see the printer configuration :-)
>     '.Configure
>     .Orientation = 0
>     .Paper = 2
>     .Resolution = Desktop.Resolution
>     ' Output in tmp folder
>     .OutputFile = "/tmp/print_test.pdf"
>     .Print
>   End With
>
> End
>
> Public Sub Printer1_Draw()
>
>   Paint.FillRect(20, 30, 700, 1000, Color.Red)
>
> End
>
> Regards
> Gianluigi
>
> 2018-07-14 21:53 GMT+02:00 Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-sse at osnanet.de>:
>
>> Currently I try to make up a simple printing into PDF for a program. It
>> would be fine if I could print colored squares, but from a first trial I
>> only got grays:
>>
>> Paint.FillRect(randLinks, randOben, 1000, 1000, Color.Red)
>>
>> Any hint what might go wrong? This is on my laptop, and the only printer
>> driver installed is for a grayscale laser printer, but printing into a file
>> (PDF) shouldn't be affected by this, should it?
>>
>> Thanks for your ideas!
>>
>> Rolf
>>
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