Jeremy
I am not sure if the following will help; but I believe you are running NT.
Also, if you are scaling, TT fonts are the way to go the check for it is in the
Proc below.
QUOTE
There is a known printing problem with Windows
NT 4.0
when you have multiple font changes on the printer canvas.
Installing Service Pack 3 for NT 4.0 solves this problem.
UNQUOTE
when you have multiple font changes on the printer canvas.
Installing Service Pack 3 for NT 4.0 solves this problem.
UNQUOTE
function IsTrueTypeAvailable : bool;
var
{$IFDEF WIN32}
rs : TRasterizerStatus;
{$ELSE}
rs : TRasterizer_Status;
{$ENDIF}
begin
result := false;
if not GetRasterizerCaps(rs, sizeof(rs)) then exit;
if rs.WFlags and TT_AVAILABLE <> TT_AVAILABLE then exit;
if rs.WFlags and TT_ENABLED <> TT_ENABLED then exit;
result := true;
end;
var
{$IFDEF WIN32}
rs : TRasterizerStatus;
{$ELSE}
rs : TRasterizer_Status;
{$ENDIF}
begin
result := false;
if not GetRasterizerCaps(rs, sizeof(rs)) then exit;
if rs.WFlags and TT_AVAILABLE <> TT_AVAILABLE then exit;
if rs.WFlags and TT_ENABLED <> TT_ENABLED then exit;
result := true;
end;
As for
streaming - tell me about it! I am working on streaming to memory a series of
bitmaps (we talked about that before) then putting them to a contiguous file.
The hard part is making this work FAST. Also I am having problems with my syntax
to retrieve each bitmap from file, as I want to be able to click through them
back and forward - but thats another story haha.
Anyway, if you want to know how to put to stream, and then to
file I should be able to help u in a few days.
Alistair+
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
Sent: Tuesday, 16 March 1999 08:51
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: [DUG]: text on canvasHi All.I have been doing a bit of experimenting the last couple of days.I want to create a VERY simple report writer for myself, as sometimes QR or other report writers are a bit of overkill for a really simple report. PLUS I wanted a new project to work on.Basically the problem I have is, that I am sending the text to an image components canvas (this is D4).When I resize the image, i.e. zoom in or zoom out, the text looks like CRAP !I had a look at how QR does this, and basically it saves the image canvas to a metafile in memory then loads it back in, but when I tried this, I kept getting an invalid metafile when I either saved to stream or saved to file.So I went back to just using the canvas directly.Is there a wee trick I am missing here that will make the text resize properly and not look all chuncky ?I have tried diff. fonts, but still get the same problem. I am currently using Time Roman.Anyone got any ideas ?ThanksJeremy Coulter (chief software engineer)
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