I would be willing to bet money that you are using the printer DC
settings to determine the resolution of the image. Remember that this is
given in 10ths of an inch NOT in pixels. To obtain the correct image
size for your printable bitmap you should multiply the declared size by
the DPI/10 of that dimension.
Remember also that not all printers have square pixels so you may need
to create an image with a different horizontal resolution to vertical
resolution.
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[quoted text, click to view] Gina_Marano wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I have a metafile that I want to convert to an image format. The main
> purpose behind this is to rotate the image 180 degrees. However, the
> quality is quite pixilated. What is the best way to do this?
>
> basically I want to convert the metafile to an image format, rotate
> 180 then print it.
>
> The metafile is generated from
> Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.LocalReport.Rendor (Visual Studio
> reportviewer).
>
> If I print it out directly without converting to image the quality is
> there.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> ~Gina_M~
On Jul 25, 10:31 am, "Michael Phillips, Jr."
[quoted text, click to view] <mphillip...@nospam.jun0.c0m> wrote:
> > I have a metafile that I want to convert to an image format. The main
> > purpose behind this is to rotate the image 180 degrees. However, the
> > quality is quite pixilated. What is the best way to do this?
>
> One way is to not convert the metafile at all. Use
> Graphics.RotateTransform(180.0F) while printing your metafile.
>
> "Gina_Marano" <ginals...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1185382930.850100.138260@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > Hey All,
>
> > I have a metafile that I want to convert to an image format. The main
> > purpose behind this is to rotate the image 180 degrees. However, the
> > quality is quite pixilated. What is the best way to do this?
>
> > basically I want to convert the metafile to an image format, rotate
> > 180 then print it.
>
> > The metafile is generated from
> > Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.LocalReport.Rendor (Visual Studio
> > reportviewer).
>
> > If I print it out directly without converting to image the quality is
> > there.
>
> > Thanks for any help
>
> > ~Gina_M~- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Thanks guys for the help! Yes, I was just following MS examples and
was rendering to a metafile instead of a BMP. If I render to a BMP
then I just rotate and all is good. Sometimes I make things too hard.
~Gina_M~
