Scale command when printing

[JADAKISS]

I want to take my form which uses point 8 font and scale it when i use the print button, so it makes it a little bigger.... say scale = 1.25 or 1.5 is that possible?

 

[MichaelRed]

I may be missing something, but "Scale" in Vb changes the coordinate units for the printer object. This really effects the placement of objects. Although you COULD change the scale of a picture box with text in it, that would have no effect on the size of the text in the box.

I cannot think of any pratical use/reason to generate text with a 0.8 pitch, and even a pitch of 1.25 is "unreadable" for us older folks. If, you meant a pitch of 8, increases to 10 or 12, at least this would make sense.

To do the latter, you would still need to actually change the pitch of the text - which AFIK - you cannot do after it is sent to the printer.

MichaelRed
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[strongm]

This is pretty straightforward to do.

The Printer object supports a Zoom property (although not ALL printer drivers themselves support it), which is the scaling factor you require in percent.

So, before you print simply issue a:

Printer.Zoom = 125 '(or 150, or whatever)

Regards,
Mike