rgilland@ecn.net.au (Robert Gilland)

"Guy Vandenberg" <guyvdb@MindSpring>

You are a genius. After pulling my hair out and downloading anything that
had anything to do with printing in delphi on the net and getting
nowhere fast. Your little piece of code actually made sence to me
and was userfrindly. I put it together with other code other small
hints on printing and I got the below. Use it to your delight.
You were the initiator.


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const INCHES_PER_MILIMETER : Real  = 0.04;

type
  TOffset =   record
               X,Y: Integer;
              end;

var FDeviceName : String;  {Get the name}
    FPageHeightPixel, FPageWidthPixel : Integer ;  {Page height and Page Width}
    FOrientation : TPrinterOrientation; {Orientation}
    FPrintOffsetPixels : TOffset;
    FPixelsPerMMX,FPixelsPerMMY: Real;
    MMSize, FPageHeightMM : Integer;
    TheReport, TheHead, HeadLine, RecordLine, TFname, TLname :String;

procedure TMissing_Rep.GetDeviceSettings;

var
  retval: integer;
  PixX, PixY: Integer;

begin
    FDeviceName := Printer.Printers[Printer.PrinterIndex];  {Get the name}
    FPageHeightPixel := Printer.PageHeight;                 {Page height}
    FPageWidthPixel := Printer.PageWidth;                   {Page Width}
    FOrientation := Printer.Orientation;
{Orientation}
    {Get the printable area offsets}
    {$IFDEF WIN32}
       FPrintOffsetPixels.X := GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, PHYSICALOFFSETX);
       FPrintOffsetPixels.Y := GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, PHYSICALOFFSETY);
    {$ELSE}
       retval := Escape(Printer.Handle,GETPRINTINGOFFSET,
                        0, nil, @FPrintOffsetPixels);
    {$ENDIF}
    {Get Pixels per Milimeter Ratio}
    PixX := GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, LOGPIXELSX);
    PixY :=  GetDeviceCaps(Printer.Handle, LOGPIXELSY);
    FPixelsPerMMX := INCHES_PER_MILIMETER * PixX;
    FPixelsPerMMY := INCHES_PER_MILIMETER  * PixY;
    FPageHeightMM := Round(FPageHeightPixel/FPixelsPerMMY);
 end;

function TMissing_Rep.PutText(mmX,mmY: Integer; S: string; LeftAlign:
Boolean): boolean;
var
  X, Y: Integer;
  align: WORD;
begin
  if LeftAlign then
    align :=  SetTextAlign(Printer.Handle,TA_BOTTOM or TA_LEFT)
  else
    align :=  SetTextAlign(Printer.Handle,TA_BOTTOM or TA_RIGHT);
  result := FALSE; {Assume fail}
  X := Trunc(mmX * FPixelsPerMMX) - FPrintOffsetPixels.X;
  Y := Trunc(mmY * FPixelsPerMMY) - FPrintOffsetPixels.Y;
  if X < 0 then exit;
  if Y < 0 then exit;
  Printer.Canvas.TextOut(X,Y,S);
  result := TRUE;
end;

procedure TMissing_Rep.Print_ButClick(Sender: TObject);

var PixelSize: Integer;

begin
Print_But.Enabled := False;
if PrintDialog1.Execute then
 begin
 Printer.Canvas.Font := Missing_Rep.Font;
 PixelSize := Printer.Canvas.TextHeight('Yy');
 MMSize := Round(PixelSize/FPixelsPerMMY);
 Printer.Title := 'Breast Cancer Project Missing Report';
 Printer.BeginDoc;                        { begin to send print job to printer }
 PrintGenerator;
 Printer.EndDoc;                 { EndDoc ends and starts printing print job }
 end;
 Print_But.Enabled := True;
 end;

procedure TMissing_Rep.PrintGenerator;

Var
  yLoc , NumRows, TheRow :Integer;

  procedure Heading;
  begin
   yLoc := 20;
   PutText(20, 20, TheHead, TRUE);
   yLoc := yLoc + MMSize;
   PutText(20,  yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[0,0], TRUE);
   PutText(60,  yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[1,0], TRUE);
   PutText(100, yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[2,0], TRUE);
   PutText(120, yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[3,0], TRUE);
   PutText(150, yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[4,0], TRUE);
   yLoc := yLoc + MMSize;
 end;

  procedure Footer;
  begin
  PutText(100,FPageHeightMM,InttoStr(Printer.PageNumber), TRUE);
  end;

begin
   Heading;
   TheRow := 1;
   while (TheRow < StringGrid1.RowCount) do
   begin
       if (yLoc > (FPageHeightMM - MMSize)) then
	   begin
		  Footer;
		  Printer.NewPage;
		  Heading;
  	   end;
	 TheGauge.Progress := Round(100 * TheRow/(StringGrid1.RowCount - 1));
	 PutText(20,  yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[0,TheRow], TRUE);
	 PutText(60,  yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[1,TheRow], TRUE);
	 PutText(100, yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[2,TheRow], TRUE);
	 PutText(120, yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[3,TheRow], TRUE);
	 PutText(150, yLoc, StringGrid1.Cells[4,TheRow], TRUE);
	 yLoc := yLoc + MMSize;
	 TheRow := TheRow + 1;
 end;
Footer;
end;