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krekeg User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks		#1 Posted : 20 years ago
Rank: Member Groups: Guest Joined: 3/2/2005(UTC) Posts: 13		Hello, I'm having real problems changing to a custom page size, or any size when printing. This is the code how I think it should be; Code: Dim MyPlaceholder As New Aurigma.GraphicsMill.WinControls.PrintPlaceholder MyPlaceholder.Image = New Bitmap("C:\Documents and Settings\keith\Desktop\epson\tiff\14801768f6_g.tif") MyPlaceholder.Footer = "test footer" printDoc.PlacementMode = PlacementMode.MultipleImages printDoc.PrintOptions.ImageAutoRotate = True printDoc.PrintOptions.PlaceholderAutoRotate = True printDoc.PrintOptions.FooterEnabled = True printDoc.PrintOptions.VerticalSpacing = 10 printDoc.PrintOptions.HorizontalSpacing = 10 Dim mypapersize As New System.Drawing.Printing.PaperSize("Custom Size", 2000, 500) printDoc.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize = mypapersize printDoc.Source = MyPlaceholder printDoc.Print() What would be the correct method for changing the paper size? At the moment it always comes out Letter size. Edited by user 17 years ago \| Reason: Not specified

Alex Kon User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks		#2 Posted : 20 years ago
Rank: Advanced Member Groups: Guest Joined: 1/31/2005(UTC) Posts: 458 Was thanked: 5 time(s) in 5 post(s)		Hi! There are some troubles with custom paper size in .NET Framework. And unfortunately at this moment I have no idea about the solution. Here is some discussion, but without positive results: http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/31/157092.aspx. But with standard paper sizes I haven't found any problems - are you sure that paper size which you try to specify is supported by your printer? It should be member of PrinterSettings.PaperSizes collection. If it doesn't work - please send us code sample.
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Gadget User Profile View All Posts by User View Thanks		#3 Posted : 20 years ago
Rank: Member Groups: Guest Joined: 8/30/2005(UTC) Posts: 5		Hi all, I have been having so much trouble with printing a simple image on a sheet of paper in a specific location, my hair is falling out. I searched here and found that many were having printing issues as well. I tried many of the solutions and still continued to have problems. Then I fell upon an awsome discovery. Here was my problem. (VB 6.0) 1. The page size that i needed to use was 9.5" X 7.125" which as you can see is a custom size 2. I needed to print 2 images in a specific location landscape. 3. It was no problem setting my printer to handle the custom size and it appeared to be simple. 4. I made a form the same size as my printer.object width,height,scalewidth,scaleheight and made sure that it was the same scalemode. 5. I put 2 picture boxes on the form. positioned them and removed the border and called the form.printform method. 6. It worked great but i had forgotten to make the form a white background. 7. When I made the form1.background white, and printed it (printform) the pictures moved all the way to the left side of the page. No matter what x,y coords i gave it, it continued to print far left. When I made the form.back grey again, it worked fine. I fought with this for a couple days and came up with no solution. Today i discovered the solution by accident. Instead of using the picture control, I tried the image control and it worked great even with the form.back white. The only reason I can figure is that, as you probably know the image control has no Hdc property where the Picture control does. So if you are having problems printing a picture on a form in a specific location, try loading the image into an image control, placing it on the form using the move method, removing the border and then printing using the printform method Here is some code i use for moving the image around on the screen with the arrow keys before i call printform Code: 'The forms key preview is set to true 'chng is a text box to enter the increments to move 'x1 is a textbox for the x coords for pic 1 'y1 is a textbox for the y coords for pic 1 ' remember to make all the controls invisible before calling printform INC = CLng(chng) ' the incremants in the change Select Case KeyCode Case 37 ' move it left X1 = CInt(X1) - INC: DoEvents prntfrm.Cls DoEvents 'prntfrm.PaintPicture Clipboard.GetData, CInt(X1), CInt(Y1) 'The above can be used if the image is in the clipboard remember form1.cls after a change pic.Move X1, Y1 Case 40 ' movce it down Y1 = CInt(Y1) + INC: DoEvents prntfrm.Cls DoEvents 'prntfrm.PaintPicture Clipboard.GetData, CInt(X1), CInt(Y1) pic.Move X1, Y1 Case 38 ' move it up Y1 = CInt(Y1) - INC: DoEvents prntfrm.Cls DoEvents 'prntfrm.PaintPicture Clipboard.GetData, CInt(X1), CInt(Y1) pic.Move X1, Y1 Case 39 'move it down X1 = CInt(X1) + INC: DoEvents prntfrm.Cls DoEvents 'prntfrm.PaintPicture Clipboard.GetData, CInt(X1), CInt(Y1) pic.Move X1, Y1 End Select I then save the coords in the win registry so that they are there the next time the program runs without re-designating them. Code: `SaveSetting "PhotoProcessor", "Coords", "pic1x", X1.Text SaveSetting "PhotoProcessor", "Coords", "pic1y", Y1.Text SaveSetting "PhotoProcessor", "Coords", "pic2x", X2.Text SaveSetting "PhotoProcessor", "Coords", "pic2y", Y2.Text` I hope this help someone.. Ira iwhitney@iwdata.com printing images,printer,printform Edited by user 17 years ago \| Reason: Not specified

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