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How to Print in Vector Format ???

Hi together!

I am working on an application in Visual Basic, which manages printing. When i try to print a rotated font, what happens, is that the printer output is really bad.

(Please do not refer me to the MS Knowledge Base-Article KB132689)

I tried to inform myself on that topic, and found the following page:

http://www.componentgarden.com/vp_printform.htm

They say, what is needed, is called printing in the "Vector Format". But they only tell you to buy their soft, instead of explaining to you how it works.

So that is what i need know - how it works !?
How to print in Vector Format in Visual Basic?
Or how to print Picture Box Content in GOOD Quality?
Any suggestions, comments, answers, solutions?

(This question might be worth 200 points, if i had 200 points, or a credit card and the will to BUY them, i would have given out 200 for this question. Sorry about it.)

echobravo316

This extremely basic code will print the entire program window, which I'm not sure will suit your needs, but here it is anyway:

Private Sub cmdPrint_Click()
Me.PrintForm
End Sub

Hope this helps!

spiritwithin

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Thanks mate, echobravo316. But there are two problems with this:

1.) I use a picture box with the content, and i guess "PrintForm" is not usable for a picture box. Alright, i could make another form and set the picture property of the form to the image property ot the picture box, but what for, it does'nt work anyway because of ...

2.) ... Visual Basic standard printing routines do not print the data in vector format, which means that the output is extremely bad. And imagine i use rotated fonts, which means that the output must be 1:1 screen:printer.

Thanks anyway. I'm looking forward to further ideas, suggestions & solutions.

spiritwithin

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