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Printing in VB - Graphics Options

James Crowley

Graphics Options

Both the Circle and the Line command allow you to specify the line colour, but you appear to have no control over the line width, what units the distances are measured in or any fill colours.

As all of these are fairly simply, they are explained briefly in the table below.

FillColor This specifies the fill color (in RGB) used, if any. Use the RGB function or vb colour constants to generate values for this.
FillMode This sets the pattern used to fill any shapes drawn by the Printer object. To see its possible values, hit F2, and select FillStyleConstants from the Classes list.
DrawMode The mode of drawing. Unless you know what you are doing, leave this to 13 - Copy Pen. Many of these settings yield unpredictable results depending on the colours on the screen. See DrawModeConstants in the object browser for its values.
DrawWidth The width of the drawing line
DrawStyle The style of the line. (ie solid, dotted etc). See DrawStyleConstants in the object browser for its values.
ScaleMode This specifies the units in which coordinates is measured. The default is twips (1,440 twips equal one inch)

James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.

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  • Posted by bakuretsu on 27 Sep 2005

    Can you tell me how to set the margins and printer orientation also using this method. It should work in VB .NET 2003 I'm assuming.

    I need to be able to control the printer margins and headers and...

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    Posted by vasanthi on 27 Sep 2005

    [Hi,

    Facing problem in printing from local printer connected to WinXp from VB6. I am able to capture Printer.devicename and thru this print to network printer. But when trying to print on Local pri...

  • problem in printing

    Posted by aadreja on 04 Jul 2005

    hi suhaas

    have u added new paper...

    now go to properties of your generic printer..
    in printing preferences select default paper instead of letter select ur created custom paper...

    now open ...

  • Posted by suhaas on 04 Jul 2005

    hi aadreja,

    thanks for your reply.

    I tried to do as per your reply. But this does not work with VB6. I am working on a invoice printing application where I am using Generic Text printer with VB6...

  • custom paper size in xp

    Posted by aadreja on 04 Jul 2005

    for setting custom paper size in xp
    u have to create form...

    go to start->settings->printers
    in file menu go to "server properties"
    create new from with desired paper size... and give name

    n...