Changing the Printer Font

[noaaprogrammer]

I have a problem. I have a dialog-based app that prints a document without using doc/view architecture. The problem is that it prints differently on some printers than it does on others. How can I ensure that it prints with the same font on all printers? Here is some code that is similar to the method that I used:

void CMyDialog::OnPrintBuf()
{
char pbuf[100] = "Hello World.";
HDC hdcPrn ;

// Instantiate a CPrintDialog.
CPrintDialog *printDlg =
new CPrintDialog(FALSE, PD_ALLPAGES | PD_RETURNDC, NULL);

// Initialize some of the fields in PRINTDLG structure.
printDlg->m_pd.nMinPage = printDlg->m_pd.nMaxPage = 1;
printDlg->m_pd.nFromPage = printDlg->m_pd.nToPage = 1;

// Display Windows print dialog box.
printDlg->DoModal();

// Obtain a handle to the device context.
hdcPrn = printDlg->GetPrinterDC();
if (hdcPrn != NULL)
{
CDC *pDC = new CDC;
pDC->Attach (hdcPrn); // attach a printer DC

pDC->StartDoc("test" // begin a new print job
// for Win32 use
// CDC::StartDoc(LPDOCINFO) override

SetPrintAlign(pDC, hdcPrn);// Set the printing alignment

pDC->StartPage(); // begin a new page
pDC->TextOut(10, 10, pbuf);// write the string in pbuf
pDC->EndPage(); // end a page

pDC->EndDoc(); // end a print job

pDC->Detach(); // detach the printer DC
delete pDC;
}

delete printDlg;
}

void CMyDialog::SetPrintAlign(CDC *pDC, HDC hdcPrn)
{
short cxPage, cyPage;

cxPage = ::GetDeviceCaps(hdcPrn,HORZRES);
cyPage = ::GetDeviceCaps(hdcPrn,VERTRES);
pDC->SetMapMode(MM_ISOTROPIC);
pDC->SetWindowExt(1000,1000);
}

 

[Cagliostro]

the print representation will be identical only in graphicall regime. John Fill

ivfmd@mail.md