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Topic: difference between DrawText and Printer.Print

Posted By: Cuspide
Subject: difference between DrawText and Printer.Print
Date Posted: 28 Dec 11 at 3:07PM

Hi all,

i'm sorry for the silly question.

IDE: VB6

I am printing a file of 30 lines.

printing with Printer.Print I get a file in the spool of 25,3KB

printing with quickPdf I get a file in the spool of 169 Kb

My setting are:

Set oPdf = New PDFLibrary

If oPdf.UnlockKey(LICENSEKEY) = False Then

Exit Function

End If

Call oPdf.NewDocument

Call objPdf.SetPageSize(IIf(pPdfPage.bOrizzontale, "A4 Landscape", "A4"))

Call objPdf.SetOrigin(1)

Call objPdf.SetMeasurementUnits(1)

Call objPdf.AddStandardFont(pPdfPage.iFontName)

Call objPdf.SetTextSize(pPdfPage.dSize)

and I have sostitute the old Printer.Print this procedure:

Public Sub gPdfRiga(ByVal pText As String)

Static yPos As Double

If PRN_CTR = 0 Then

yPos = 0

End If

yPos = yPos + CDbl(oPdf.GetTextHeight)

Call oPdf.DrawText(7, yPos, pText)

PRN_CTR = PRN_CTR + 1

End Sub

you're doing something wrong? or the file must be of such size?

thanks to all.

Daniele

Replies:

Posted By: AndrewC
Date Posted: 02 Jan 12 at 11:57AM

Currently with Quick PDF Library, when you print the PDF, the file is converted to a bitmap image before being sent to the printer and this is why the spool file is so large.

We are looking into options to improve the spool file size but this won't happen until after 8.14 is released.

Posted By: Cuspide
Date Posted: 11 Jan 12 at 9:31AM

Perfect.

So will wait for the release of >= 8.14

Tnank You Andrew.

Daniele

Posted By: Cuspide
Date Posted: 28 May 12 at 7:56AM

Hi Andrew,

news for this problem?

Thank you.

Daniele