On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:51:33 -0500, Hal Rosser wrote:

> "al jones"  wrote in message
> news:4pw3hxjxmf8p.179oylccy8n0w$.dlg{at}40tude.net...
>> okay, doing some printing out of VB6.  I've found printer and can change
>> fonts and type size, now I need to set the margins for my printed page and
>> don't see printdoc in msdn - what should I be looking for??
>>
>> Also, how do I check to see if the current location on the page + the
> next,
>> for exmaple) 6 lines of text would overflow the page??
>>
>> TIA //al
>
> Look at the Printer object
> some sample lines::::::::
> Printer.FontSize = 12
> Printer.CurrentX = 20
> Printer.CurrentY = 50
> Printer.Print "Hello World"
> Printer.EndDoc

Hal, since you're awake and responding.  I've gotten parts to work,  I'm
printing to a pdf since I can't get to the real printer from inside this
virtual system (for some reason).  The MSDN (VB6 June 2000) I have, has no
examples - and I'm back to not being able to see how to put the pieces
together.  BTW in VB6 it's Printer.Font.Name and Printer.Font.Size.  I
can't find (don't know what to look for) to set the margins on the print
doc in VB6, nor how to calculate how much space I have left at the end of
the page.

I've looked at the gdi docs for vb.net but that's not helpful (to me) as I
can't see the relationship - even though it appears as if VB6 is using a
similar technique.

Suggestions???


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