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Re: Printing problem

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From: Joe C. Hecht
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:18
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Are you printing any bitmap images?

If so, take a look on our TExcellentImagePrinter webpage, where
you may find some info about pages that fail to print correctly.

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Joe
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"Karsten Becker" <Kars@home.nl> wrote in message news:405852c3$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi all
>
> I have written a MDI program in BCB5 which presents weathermaps (mdi
> childs). I wrote another program, a scedular which does the following:
>
> - starts the first program
> - opens the 1. weathermap
> - print them
> - closes the 1. weathermap
> - opens the 2. weathermap
> - print them
> - closes the 2. weathermap
> ...
> ...
> ...
> - opens the x. weathermap
> - print them
> - closes the x. weathermap
> - close the first program
>
> For the weathermaps i created my own (weather)font (it's an true type font)
> which isn't placed in the windows/fonts directly but in the root directory
> of the first program. These fonts will be loaded at startup and released
> when closing the first application.
>
> Now, when printing all seems to be ok in the first place. The first 3 or 4
> weathermaps are printed ok, but suddenly the weather(font) can't be printed
> any more. Somehow i get a different font (systemfont?). The fontsize is the
> same as the weather(font).
>
> Can someone tell me what could cause this?
>
> There are a couple of things i have checked so far:
> - Size of the printing (approx 3,5MB). The printer has 64MB... so this
> shouldn't be a problem...
> - Checked the printout on different printers HP, Konica..... all the same
> problem.
> - I have no memeory leak (at least i've checked it with Codeguard....)
> - i put a wait statement between the different weathermaps of 30 seconds but
> that doesn't help either....
>
> When i'm opening the weathermaps by hand and print them i've got no
> problems....
>
> BTW, im using TPrinter *Prntr = Printer(); Prntr->BeginDoc ....
> Prntr->EndDoc to do the printjob and i've got that problem on WinXP.
>
> Any ideas/ suggestions?
>
> Karsten
>
>
>
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