<div>
i already did this textout function... what i need is to directly print it to the printer device... thanks anyway! &nbsp;the solution was just simple... i just need to have a print command before doing the textout and print.enddoc to end the printing job.<br />

</div>


i already did this textout function... what i need is to directly print it to the printer device... thanks anyway!  the solution was just simple... i just need to have a print command before doing the textout and print.enddoc to end the printing job.


<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I have created a logical font using WIN32 APIs. &nbsp;I can output it on a picture box using the &quot;textout&quot; function.<br />
What I need is to convert this to a metafile so I can print it or print it as is. &nbsp;Is there any way to do this in VB?
</div>
</div>


I have created a logical font using WIN32 APIs.  I can output it on a picture box using the "textout" function.
What I need is to convert this to a metafile so I can print it or print it as is.  Is there any way to do this in VB?

Printing Logical Fonts

A font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of type, one piece (called a "sort") for each glyph, and a typeface consists of a range of fonts that share an overall design. With the advent of digital typography, font is frequently synonymous with typeface, although the two terms do not necessarily mean the same thing. In particular, the use of "vector" or "outline" fonts means that different sizes of a typeface can be dynamically generated from one design. Each style may still be in a separate "font file" -- for instance, the typeface "Futura" may include the fonts "Futura roman", "Futura italic", "Futura bold" and "Futura extended" —- but the term "font" might be applied either to one of these alone or to the whole typeface.

Fonts Typography

Visual Basic is Microsoft’s event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model. It is relatively easy to learn and use because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage. It has been replaced with VB.NET, and is very similar to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the programming language for the Microsoft Office product line.