[Gambas-user] Printing colors in PDF

[Gianluigi]

Configure opens the configuration window and printing is based on the
configuration given by the user.
But now I'm going to sleep.
Goodnight

Gianluigi


2018-07-14 23:53 GMT+02:00 Rolf-Werner Eilert <rwe-sse at osnanet.de>:

> Hm. I find it strange because when printing into a file, there should be
> no driver for a specific printer involved. But ".configure" perhaps is not
> resetting everything to default but leaves a few settings from the printer
> previously chosen.
>
> Regards
>
> Rolf
>
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> Am 14.07.2018 um 23:46 schrieb Gianluigi:
>
> 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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