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---------- LOTS OF PRINTING QUESTIONS -----------
Several printing questions here, so hope that someone can help me out. I guess maybe some of them are pretty simple, but not having used VB to print before then for me they are all equally mystifying.
a) How can I print a bitmap file to a printer from a given pathname, or do I need to have it in a picture box ? Either way I'm not sure how to do it.
b) I've got a small print routine that sets the printer font to Tahoma and fontsize to 18 and fontbold to true. The first time I use it then all is well, but try it again and it goes back to the printer defaults, even though it goes through the same code again. Am I missing something ?
c) Is it possible to print a control ? By this I mean that if I want a checkbox in the printout, or a command button for example then can I get it to do this - I basically want checkboxes in certain positions in the report. Do I need to have an image of a checkbox and print this instead ? If so then same as question (a)
Well, think thats all for now - hope someone can help out.
I know there are plenty of shareware controls to do printy type things from VB but really need to know how to do it myself.
Thanks in advance.
Dave
a) How can I print a bitmap file to a printer from a given pathname, or do I need to have it in a picture box ? Either way I'm not sure how to do it.
b) I've got a small print routine that sets the printer font to Tahoma and fontsize to 18 and fontbold to true. The first time I use it then all is well, but try it again and it goes back to the printer defaults, even though it goes through the same code again. Am I missing something ?
c) Is it possible to print a control ? By this I mean that if I want a checkbox in the printout, or a command button for example then can I get it to do this - I basically want checkboxes in certain positions in the report. Do I need to have an image of a checkbox and print this instead ? If so then same as question (a)
Well, think thats all for now - hope someone can help out.
I know there are plenty of shareware controls to do printy type things from VB but really need to know how to do it myself.
Thanks in advance.
Dave
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Thanks for your proposed answer Renato, and I'm sure the tool you mention is probably useful, but as I said in the question I really do need to know how to do this myself. (i.e the actual code)
Thanks anyway
Dave
Thanks anyway
Dave
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Thanks Mark, that all looks pretty good stuff. I will almost certainly e-mail you in the next couple of days (unfortunately my company e-mail isn't working at the moment so I need to keep logging in to Experts Exchange to see if there are any comments or answers - hence I can't e-mail you at the moment either).
Thanks again,
Dave
daveb@banet.net (this is my home e-mail address)
Thanks again,
Dave
daveb@banet.net (this is my home e-mail address)
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Just for anyone elses benefit in the future then the following link may prove of use :
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q168/7/44.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q168/7/44.asp
This is the more flexible tools for print