Printer problem with Brush hatch styles

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From: Peter Clarke
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:50

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Hi everyone
My application draws rectangles and other polygons which can be filled using 
the various standard hatch styles such as diagonal lines, cross, vertical 
lines etc. To set the hatch colours and styles, I use the 
Canvas->Brush->Color and Canvas->Brush->Style properties. All is fine when 
displayed on the monitor, but when printing, most printers draw the space 
between the hatch lines in black, I want the spaces left white or 
transparent.

I thought this problem may be solved by playing with the background 
colour/style by using the Windows GDI functions SetBkColor() and 
SetBkStyle(), but nothing I do has any result.

Can anyone help me get the printing right.

Regards
Peter

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