In searching for documentation, remember a quirk in Microsoft vocabulary... a "printer" is software, not hardware. The device on the corner of your desk with the paper in it is not a "printer", it is a "printing device."<br>
--<br>Not being an expert on writing Windows printer code, nevertheless let me venture a guess that there may be no way to do what you want.<br>My reasoning hinges on a bad experience I had in the past...<br>Using Crystal Reports, a rather expensive commercial product which uses Windows very well, I designed a very fancy Purchase Order form, which I tested on three or four different Windows printers. When I installed the application, the purchase orders would not print out correctly on another printer -- the one connected to my boss's PC (of course). I had to re-design the report a few pixels narrower.<br>
--<br>Please somebody tell Greg that I'm wrong.<br>--<br>Vernon<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Greg Ewing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz">greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm wrestling with printing support for PyGUI on Windows.<br>
I'd like to set up the coordinate system during printing<br>
so that (0, 0) is at the corner of the paper, so that I<br>
can arrange for the margins to have predictable sizes.<br>
<br>
However, the device context I get from calling PrintDlg()<br>
seems to be set up so that the origin is at the corner<br>
of the printable area of the page, which is smaller by<br>
some amount that depends on the printer being used.<br>
<br>
If I could find out the limits of the printable area,<br>
I could correct for this, but there doesn't seem to be<br>
any straightforward way of getting this information.<br>
It doesn't seem to appear anywhere in any of the<br>
structs returned by PrintDlg(), and I can't find any<br>
call that might extract it from the device context.<br>
<br>
Am I missing something? Surely this an issue that most<br>
applications that print have to deal with. How do they<br>
do it?<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
-- <br>
Greg<br>
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