PrinterDC

A printer device context is specific to MSW and Mac, and allows access to any printer with a Windows or Macintosh driver.

See DC for further information on device contexts, and DC.GetSize for advice on achieving the correct scaling for the page.

See also

Printing Framework Overview, DC

Inheritance Diagram

Inheritance diagram for class PrinterDC

Methods Summary

__init__	Constructor.
GetPaperRect	Return the rectangle in device coordinates that corresponds to the full paper area, including the nonprinting regions of the paper.

Properties Summary

PaperRect

See GetPaperRect

Class API

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class PrinterDC(DC)

A printer device context is specific to MSW and Mac, and allows access to any printer with a Windows or Macintosh driver.

Possible constructors:

PrinterDC(printData)

Methods

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__init__(self, printData)

Constructor.

Pass a PrintData object with information necessary for setting up a suitable printer device context. This is the recommended way to construct a PrinterDC. Make sure you specify a reference to a PrintData object, not a pointer - you may not even get a warning if you pass a pointer instead.

Parameters:printData (PrintData) –

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GetPaperRect(self)

Return the rectangle in device coordinates that corresponds to the full paper area, including the nonprinting regions of the paper.

The point (0,0) in device coordinates is the top left corner of the page rectangle, which is the printable area on MSW and Mac. The coordinates of the top left corner of the paper rectangle will therefore have small negative values, while the bottom right coordinates will be somewhat larger than the values returned by DC.GetSize .

Return type: Rect

Properties

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PaperRect

See GetPaperRect