Printer Margins

How do I get the minimum printer margins? I need to position a label on a page. The user enters the X,Y coordinates of the upper left corner. In order to position this correctly, I need to subtract the printer margins.

[Dave McLelland]

Look at the GetDeviceCaps function.
PHYSICALOFFSETX
PHYSICALOFFSETY
PHYSICALWIDTH
and PHYSICALHEIGHT values for nIndex.


Dave McLelland
D. McLelland (Software) Limited

[stakon]

Good Day,

by using the PHYSICALOFFSETX and PHYSICALOFFSETY i get the "the distance from the left/top edge of the physical page to the left/top edge of the printable area" as noted in MSDN help.

My question is: how can i find the "right" and "bottom" offsets? Are these the same as their left/top counterparts?

This would not be an issue if PHYSICALWIDTH and PHYSICALHEIGHT returned the width/height bounds for the printer rather than the page size...

Thanx in advance,

Stakon.

[OReubens]

This would not be an issue if PHYSICALWIDTH and PHYSICALHEIGHT returned the width/height bounds for the printer rather than the page size...

The issue is... These values ARE dependant on paper size.

The printer I'm using at home can print A4 paper up to 4mm from the bottom. But when printing envelopes, it can only handle 12mm from the bottom

You cannot assume the bottom and right edges of what the printer can handle are universal across all papersizes the printer can handle.

[stakon]

OReubens,

I am aware of what you are explaining here. Perhaps the way i wrote the above is confusing...

What i mean is that PHYSICALWIDTH and PHYSICALHEIGHT return the actual physical paper size
as explained in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx

And what i am asking is:
Can i safely assume that the value returned from PHYSICALOFFSETX (which describes the left printer margin), can be also used as the right printer margin?

for example:
left_margin = GetDeviceCaps(PHYSICALOFFSETX);//This IS correct
right_margin = GetDeviceCaps(PHYSICALWIDTH) - left_margin; //??? is THIS correct ???

[Nikitozz]

right_margin = GetDeviceCaps(PHYSICALWIDTH) - left_margin; //??? is THIS correct ???

No, it isn't correct.
"GetDeviceCaps(PHYSICALWIDTH) - left_margin" gives you the sum of the printable area's width and the right margin.

[OReubens]

HORZRES will give you the width of the printable area
VERTRES will give you the height of the printable area.

[OReubens]

Left/Right margins don't need to be identical (although they usually are)
Bottom and top margins don't need to be identical (and they rarely are).

[stakon]

Nikitozz,

i think you are confusing something.
Let me explain with a numerical example:

left_margin = GetDeviceCaps(PHYSICALOFFSETX); // = 80 //assume left margin is 80
page_width = GetDeviceCaps(PHYSICALWIDTH); // = 5000 //assume physical page width is 5000
right_margin = page_width - left_margin; //5000 - 80 = 4920

So the result is the right_margin's position is 4920 units from the left of the physical page which is what i am looking for.

Thanx OReubens for pointing out these (HORZRES ,VERTRES)

[Nikitozz]

So the result is the right_margin's position is 4920 units from the left of the physical page which is what i am looking for.

Ok. It's clear now. I haven't understand you.
I thought you wanted to find out the "width" of the margin.

[jnmacd]

This post was from June 2000!
I hope the thread starter got it solved by now

[OReubens]

right_margin = page_width - left_margin; //5000 - 80 = 4920

So the result is the right_margin's position is 4920 units from the left of the physical page which is what i am looking for.

No, because the right margin and left margin are not necessarily the same.

Left margin is at PHYSICALOFFSETX
right margin is at PHYSICALOFFSETX + HORZRES
the width of the right margin is PHYSICALWIDTH - (PHYSICALOFFSETX + HORZRES)

[OReubens]

This post was from June 2000!
I hope the thread starter got it solved by now

Maybe, but someone else (stakon) picked up on it since he has an issue with this also. He SHOULD have made a new thread for this though