Writing graphics to a Device context

[leojose]

Hi all,

My aim is to get the handle of a printer and then pass some data to it for printing. so far I have managed to get the handle of printer:
hdcPrn = GetPrinterDC()
and then just for testing i captured the desktop screen but getting the handle of the screen and copied this data to the printer using BitBlt:
BitBlt(hdcPrn,0,0,1024,768,hdcScreen,0,0,SRCCOPY)
where hdcScreen is the Device Context of the screen.

Now what i want to do is read some data from a word document using Creatfile() and ReadFile() and then write whatever data I get into the Device DC of the printer. I am sure Writefile() or TextOut() will not work b'coz the .doc might contain images also. I want to know if there is any command or method to write a buffer data into a device DC.

Thanks

[golanshahar]

there is much easier way to do what you asking.
all you have to do is use Word Automation, and simply by couple of commands you open a doc file and can priniting it, without any pharsing of the document i did it once with Excel!

the code should look somehting like that:

Applcation appWord;
appWord.CreateDispatch("Wo*rd.Application");
appWord.Open ( ...) //give the file name to open + other parameters
appWord.PrintOut( ...) // print the opened file
appWord.ReleaseDispach();

basically thats all you have to do.

if you got problem let me know.

Cheers
Shahar