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#90: How can I print a bitmap on printer? |
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Sometimes you must from own application to print a some bitmap. Of course, you can use the some report designer and create a report form with this bitmap. But you can solve this task and easy - to print a bitmap on printer canvas directly without any report engine. Someone from you can say - easy task with solution in few lines of code: with Printer do begin BeginDoc; Canvas.Draw(X, Y, bmp); EndDoc; end; But this code will work correctly not with any printer! For example, Epson Stylus 300 this code will print the image with very bad quality and on some printer you can receive a blank paper... The reason of this - using the StretchBlt function for output but in MSDN you can read that this function does not guarantee a correct outputing from one device to other. As alternative you must use the StretchDIBits function: var Info: PBitmapInfo; InfoSize: DWORD; Image: Pointer; ImageSize: DWORD; Bits: HBITMAP; DIBWidth, DIBHeight: LongInt; begin Printer.BeginDoc; try Canvas.Lock; try { Paint bitmap to the printer } with Printer do begin Bits := bmp.Handle; GetDIBSizes(Bits, InfoSize, ImageSize); Info := AllocMem(InfoSize); try Image := AllocMem(ImageSize); try GetDIB(Bits, 0, Info^, Image^); with Info^.bmiHeader do begin DIBWidth := biWidth; DIBHeight := biHeight; end; StretchDIBits(Canvas.Handle, 0, 0, DIBWidth, DIBHeight, 0, 0, DIBWidth, DIBHeight, Image, Info^, DIB_RGB_COLORS, SRCCOPY); finally FreeMem(Image, ImageSize); end; finally FreeMem(Info, InfoSize); end; end; finally Canvas.Unlock; end; finally Printer.EndDoc; end; end;
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