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#17: How can I read a printer settings - page sizes and margins?

From today I shall post a some useful functions for printer settings detect. Today I include a functions for printer page width/height and margins getting.

function GetPageWidth: Integer;
begin
  Result := GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, PHYSICALWIDTH)
end;

function GetPageHeight: Integer;
begin
  Result := GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, PHYSICALHEIGHT)
end;

function GetPageOffsetLeft: Integer;
begin
  Result := GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, PHYSICALOFFSETX)
end;

function GetPageOffsetRight: Integer;
begin
  Result := GetPageWidth - GetPageOffsetLeft - GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, HORZRES)
end;

function GetPageOffsetTop: Integer;
begin
  Result := GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, PHYSICALOFFSETY)
end;

function GetPageOffsetBottom: Integer;
begin
  Result := GetPageHeight - GetPageOffsetTop - GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, VERTRES)
end;

function GetPixelsPerInchX: Integer;
begin
  Result := GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, LOGPIXELSX)
end;

function GetPixelsPerInchY: Integer;
begin
  Result := GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, LOGPIXELSY)
end;

PS: of course, the GetPage* and GetPageOffset* results will be in printer units. If you want to convert in screen units you must calculate: Result := Screen.PixelsPerInch*GetPage.. div GetPixelsPerInchX (or Y)

Published: August 20, 1999

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