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Re: Printing in Windows

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Mar 13, 2001
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On 13 Mar 2001, at 7:19, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi Jonas,
> when printing in Windows you have to do all the positioning yourself.
> 
> To ensure that words begin on a new line, you must always measure the size
> of the text you intend to fit on the line and if it doesn't fit, reduce it
> by one word and try again until it does fit.
> Then you can "print" the line. You must give X and Y positions before each
> print instruction to make sure you are positioned correctly.
> 
> You can think of printing in windows as having a page and placing characters
> anywhere on any "pixel" address, and when the page is complete, issuing an
> "end-page" command. Then you can start the next page.
> 
> Its very messy and prone to easy mistakes, particularly when using multiple
> fonts etc...
> 
> This is all theory, 'cos I haven't tried with Win32lib yet, just VB and C.

I did just that on the C64 around 1990. I also changed fonts (adding a pixel
here or
there) to some words, to make the page do both left- and right-aligning. It's
do-able,
but on the C64 it could take an hour or more to do 15 pages.

Kat