Fit Width

[norbertjurkiewicz84]

How can I get the driver to scale the data to fit within the width of the page size?

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello norbertjurkiewicz84,

You can specify the Page size in the driver (or let it set it as needed based on what the application that sends the print information needs), but the scaling, and what will be passed to the driver for printing is up to the application starting the print process.

Best,
Stefan

[norbertjurkiewicz84]

Is there a way to rescale a printed document page using the PDF Tools?

[Tracker Supp-Stefan]

Hello norbertjurkiewicz84,

As far as I am aware - nope.
You will need to pass the contents to our printing driver and tell the printing application to "Fit Printer Margins", and then set up the desired page size in the drivers.

Best,
Stefan

[norbertjurkiewicz84]

Is this something that will be implemented. Most PDF Printers and printer drivers have a scaling option that will take a page that was sent and scale it to a user specified percentage of the original before placing it on the canvas? For example, check out primo.

I saw that there is a scaling option but it doesn't scale the whole input that was sent to the printer but the already cutoff data.

What happens to the text that gets cut off the page? Is it lost?


Thanks.

[norbertjurkiewicz84]

Playing around with the print driver property page, I found that if I adjust the Page Size to something larger than the standard 8.5 by 11 I can get my contents to get completely placed on the page. Changing the sheet size does not affect this.

Is there a way to adjust the Page Size setting via the COM object. So far I can only adjust the SheetSize.

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Yes, there is such a way - as yet undocumented.

To set the paper size you have to set it's index to "DevMode.PapSize" option:

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printer->Option["DevMode.PapSize"] = 9; // to setup A4 as paper size.

if you wish to set a custom paper size you have to use the following code:

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printer->Option["DevMode.PapSize"] = 256; // to use custom paper size
printer->Option["DevMode.CWidth"] = pwidth; // width of the page in tenths of millimeters
printer->Option["DevMode.CHeight"] = pheight; // height of the page in tenths of millimeters

To specify page orientation, use

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printer->Option["DevMode.Orientation"] = 1; // 1 for portrait, 2 for landscape

Please note, to take effect, you have to call printer->ApplyOptions(0).

Hope that helps