1) How do you build a page for a print driver?
Has anyone had experience of building a page (or pages) of text
and image data using MS-Visual C++ so that the built data
can be sent to the DEFAULT print driver?

2) How do you send directly to the default print driver?
I am trying to do this and do not want the Print Dialog Box
to appear.  I just want to build a page of image and text data
then send directly to the default print sriver for printing.
I want the application to wait for the driver to return so
that a result can be obtained from the print.

Any help to a novice would be appreciated.

Robin Manicom.

Robin Manicom (rmanicom@qikshift.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: 1) How do you build a page for a print driver?
: Has anyone had experience of building a page (or pages) of text
: and image data using MS-Visual C++ so that the built data
: can be sent to the DEFAULT print driver?

That's a windows-question not C++ ;-)

Create a devicecontext for the printer.
StartDoc,StartPage (See Helpfile)
Use GDI-Calls to write
EndPage;
EndDoc()

That's it (Be sure to use the correct mapping-mode )

: 2) How do you send directly to the default print driver?
: I am trying to do this and do not want the Print Dialog Box
: to appear.  I just want to build a page of image and text data
: then send directly to the default print sriver for printing.
: I want the application to wait for the driver to return so
: that a result can be obtained from the print.

Use PrintDialogBox and specify that you won't see the Dialog ;-)
(See Helpfile for Printdialog )


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