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RE: Printer page physical sizes

• Posted by Andy Drummond <andy at kestreltele.com> Mar 07, 2005
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Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> 
> posted by: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> 
> Andy Drummond wrote:
> > 
> > I use Win32Lib pretty much exclusively (thank you, Derek), but I just 
> > can't find out how to determine the actual physical size of a printer 
> > page. I can get it in pixels, but I really want, well, inches, but twips 
> > 
> > would be the same really. Any ideas from you Windows programming gurus? 
> > I'm not too familiar with Win API, I just let people like Rob & Derek & 
> > Judith (where IS she?) do it all for me.
> > 
> 
> Does this help ?
> 
> 
>   PageWidthInMM = w32Func(xGetDeviceCaps,{getDC(Printer), HORZSIZE})
>   PageHeightInMM = w32Func(xGetDeviceCaps,{getDC(Printer), VERTSIZE})
>  
> and there are 25.4 millimeters in an inch.
> 
> Check out the API docs for GetDeviceCaps. 
> 
> Other codes include ...
> 
>     DRIVERVERSION       --  Device driver version
>     TECHNOLOGY          --  Device classification
>     HORZSIZE            --  Horizontal size in millimeters
>     VERTSIZE            --  Vertical size in millimeters
>     HORZRES             --  Horizontal width in pixels
>     VERTRES             --  Vertical width in pixels
>     BITSPIXEL           --  Number of bits per pixel
>     PLANES              --  Number of planes
>     NUMBRUSHES          --  Number of brushes the device has
>     NUMPENS            --  Number of pens the device has
>     NUMMARKERS         --  Number of markers the device has
>     NUMFONTS           --  Number of fonts the device has
>     NUMCOLORS          --  Number of colors the device supports
>     PDEVICESIZE        --  Size required for device descriptor
>     CURVECAPS          --  Curve capabilities
>     LINECAPS           --  Line capabilities
>     POLYGONALCAPS      --  Polygonal capabilities
>     TEXTCAPS           --  Text capabilities
>     CLIPCAPS           --  Clipping capabilities
>     RASTERCAPS         --  Bitblt capabilities
>     ASPECTX           --  Length of the X leg
>     ASPECTY           --  Length of the Y leg
>     ASPECTXY          --  Length of the hypotenuse
>     LOGPIXELSX         --  Logical pixels/inch in X
>     LOGPIXELSY         --  Logical pixels/inch in Y
>     SIZEPALETTE      --  Number of entries in physical palette
>     NUMRESERVED      --  Number of reserved entries in palette
>     COLORRES         --  Actual color resolution
>     PHYSICALWIDTH    --  Physical Width in device units
>     PHYSICALHEIGHT   --  Physical Height in device units
>     PHYSICALOFFSETX  --  Physical Printable Area x margin
>     PHYSICALOFFSETY  --  Physical Printable Area y margin
>     SCALINGFACTORX   --  Scaling factor x
>     SCALINGFACTORY   --  Scaling factor y
> 
> -- 
> Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia
> irc://irc.sorcery.net:9000/euphoria

Derek, 
Thank you - that's just what I wanted - and more!!
I have a book - "Win32 Programming" but it is more use
as a door stop. What would you - anyone - recommend as
a good reference on all-round Win32 API rather than just
kerning and other on-screen fancy-pants work?
Andy