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Printing Help

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Nov 17, 2004
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Some type ago I wrote a print utility that uses wPuts. I'm revisiting it now
because it is ungodly slow. It takes at least a minute to print one(1) full
page... totally useless for a real application. I have another OS which prints to
the same printer (hp890C) which is about 10 times faster. This routine below is
printing from a list box. Any help would be appreciated....I've no clue how to
fix the slowness.

procedure processPrint()

integer charsPerLine, linesPerPage
sequence fontSize, printerSize, stars
    stars = rpt(80,'*')

    prtOptions = getPrinter()
    if len(prtOptions)> 0 then
        printerFont = 12 -- start big
        charsPerLine = 0 -- init
        printerSize = getExtent( Printer ) -- get the size of a printer page
        while charsPerLine< rptWidth do
            setFont( Printer, "Courier New", printerFont, Normal )
            fontSize = getFontSize( Printer ) -- get the font metrics
            charsPerLine = floor(printerSize[1]/fontSize[1])
            printerFont -= 1
        end while
        if charsPerLine>rptWidth then
            ptab = space(floor((charsPerLine - rptWidth)/2))
        else
            ptab = ""
        end if
        linesPerPage = floor(printerSize[2]/fontSize[2])

        for j = 1 to prtOptions[3] do -- copies
            tmp = startDoc(rptName&sprintf("C%d",j))
            tmp = startPage()
            line = 0
            pageNbr =1
            if pageNbr>=prtOptions[1] and pageNbr<=prtOptions[2] then
                printFlag = 1
            else
                printFlag = 0
            end if
            pageNbr +=1
            for i = 1 to lnCount do
                tmp = getItem(idList,i)
                if sch(1,tmp,"*****") = 0 then
                    if i = pageTable[pageNbr] then
                        line = 0
                        if printFlag = 1 then
                            temp = endPage()
                        end if
if pageNbr>=prtOptions[1] and pageNbr<=prtOptions[2]
                        then
                            printFlag = 1
                            temp = startPage()
                            setPosition(Printer,0,line*(fontSize[2])+5)
                            wPuts(Printer,ptab&tmp)
                            line += 1
                        else
                            printFlag = 0
                        end if
                        pageNbr +=1
                        setText(sb,"Printing Page "&sprintf("%d ",{pageNbr}))
                    else
                        if printFlag=1 then
                            setPosition(Printer,0,line*(fontSize[2]-6))
---<<<<<<<<<<<< THE -6 matches theos with 12
                            fontsize
                            wPuts(Printer,ptab&tmp)
                            line += 1
                        end if
                    end if
                else
                    --tmp = startPage()
                end if
            end for
            if printFlag = 1 then
                temp = endPage()
            end if
            temp = endDoc()
        end for
        releasePrinter()
    end if
    figureLocation(0,0,"")
    setFocus(idList)

end procedure