Re: Printing with ReportBuider

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Sergey Tkachenko

Posted: 04/04/2002 19:38:58

Is Canvas.Font.PixelsPerInch set to the printer resolution?

> We have made a RichView support component for use in ReportBuilder

> (Piparti). The preview is now working reasonably well, but with the

> printing, while the page starts in the correct position after the report

> header and ends without writing over the report footer, the font is way

> larger than it should be. Embedded pictures are drawn at the correct

> position and size and a table's frame is also correct in position and

size,

> so we seem to have the scaling correct - it's just the @#$ font! The page

is

> being drawn to ReportBuilder's printer canvas and not directly to the

actual

> printer canvas, but it's canvas is being set to the correct font style on

> TextOutA in TFontInfo.Draw, so it seems to be some sort of canvas setting,

> or probably more likely, ReportBuilder is doing some sort of stretch copy

to

> the actual printer canvas that is scaling the graphics, but not the

fonts -

> but the problem does not exist with other ReportBuilder components.

>

> Any suggestions?

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