printing in VB...

[tommy19]

Hi all,
I am trying to print invoices from a vb application, however, my scales seem to change from printer to printer. Is there a way to force the scale to be the same no matter what printer I print the form to?

Thanks in advance!

Tom

 

[petermeachem]

Why don't you use Crystal? Peter Meachem
peter@accuflight.com

 

[CCLINT]

Probably wouldn't make a difference....

 

[Norris68]

If you stick using Twips for your scaling you shouldn't have any problems as they are resolution-independant.

 

[Norris68]

... you also have the TwipsPerPixelX & TwipsPerPixelY properties that will tell you the printer resolution.

And if you didn't know, although the Height & Width properties will give you the dimensions of the paper, use .ScaleLeft, .ScaleTop, .ScaleHeight & .ScaleWidth to find out the printable area.

 

[CCLINT]

And then there's the Fonts.....

Whatever.. if you aren't positioning all of the objects yourself and run time, and/or are positioning to tight, you are going to have problems.

Standards, standards. Where are you?

 

[Norris68]

oooh! Yes the

[curse]

fonts!

[/curse]

 

[CCLINT]

That was supposed to read:
"...if you aren't positioning all of the objects yourself at run time..."

And Norris68, that was supposed to read:
.....the fonts!

 

[Norris68]

Pedant!
... and I enclosed the curse in code tags so it wouldn't get converted - so there!