"DotNetBBK" <DotNetBBK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> For first problem, I also had to multiply the World Transform by 3 to
> get the image to the correct size, which makes sense, as screen and
> printer have different DPI. However, my drawing was being rendered
> in MFC, so I used StretchBlt and stretched the image with this
> scaling factor and it worked fine, in case of float value also.
>
> For the second problem, if you are using a network printer, which is
> being driven by a print server, then you have to see, whether
> this print server has XP and latest drivers installed. When I
> tried to do print preview on one of my office's network printer,
> text rendering didn't work, but it worked fine for other printer.
> Later on, I found out that it didn't work for the print server,
> which had nt/2000 drivers.
> Hope it helps,
>
> -Brajesh
> "Lloyd Dupont" wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Thanks for your answer.
>> Anyway my problems are:
>> 1. printing text, it's shrinked, I had to multiply the world transform
>> matrix by 3 to get correct printing?!?!
>> (3 being the integer division of printer DPI by screen DPI, I don't know
>> if
>> it's a relevant relation, but I noticed it)
>> 2. preview doesn't work! no text on the preview at all!
>>
>> --
>> If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy,
>> throw
>> one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid
>> war
>> is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
>> Jack Handey.
>> "DotNetBBK" <DotNetBBK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5BC90B69-F5AC-44E1-86AA-FE0284FD4F9B@microsoft.com...
>> > Lloyd,
>> >
>> > Are you using a network printer ?
>> > You should try the same by setting your default to a different printer.
>> > I had the similar problem with XEROX Document Center 555 PS3.
>> > But, when I set my default printer to HP LaserJet 55i, the problem went
>> > away. Texts are one of the most basic rendering objects and if it
>> > is not getting rendered, then its most probably a printer issue.
>> >
>> > -Brajesh
>> >
>> >
>> > "Lloyd Dupont" wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have a C# application with RichText formatting.
>> >> Because it's a graphical application I have to do the text rendering
>> >> myself
>> >> on our main canvas.
>> >> I used Uniscribe to do all the formatting (I wrote a ManagedC++
>> >> component
>> >> taking care of that).
>> >>
>> >> Uniscribe glyphs are painted with ScriptTextOut (not with TextOutput
>> >> and
>> >> such).
>> >>
>> >> Now I've got 2 problems.
>> >>
>> >> 1st:
>> >> printing: all my GDI Text rendering (with ScripTextOut) is shrinked
>> >> into
>> >> the
>> >> corner compare to GDI+ rendering.
>> >> I had to call SetWorldTransform() with all the matrix element (coming
>> >> from
>> >> the GDI+ Graphics.Transform object) multiplied by 3 to draw correctly.
>> >> What's even weirder: 3 is the correct value, not 300.0 / 96.0 = ~3.xx
>> >> (which
>> >> is the DPI ration printer/screen).
>> >>
>> >> 2nd:
>> >> preview: no text at all is displayed in my
>> >> System.Windows.Forms.PrintPreviewDialog
>> >> no clue....
>> >>
>> >> Any thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy,
>> >> throw
>> >> one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how
>> >> stupid
>> >> war
>> >> is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
>> >> Jack Handey.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>