[Gambas-user] Printing colors in PDF

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Good morning Gianluigi,

I will make my own configuration dialog for the printing here. Will fit 
better anyway.

Regards

Rolf



Am 15.07.2018 um 00:00 schrieb 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 
> <mailto: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
>
>
>
>     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
>>     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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