Adds *easy* Print Preview capability to any Delphi Application
Print Preview supports:
- Zoom from 10% to 5000%
- Zoom tool allows zoom in/out on a specific location
- Hand tool allows easy panning across the page
- One Page or Two Page displays
- Portrait or Landscape page orientation
- Printing Status display with CANCEL and cooperative
multi-tasking
- Tool Tips & Hints for iconic buttons
- Status bar displays page, zoom level, and hints
- Customizable Grid verifies margins & layout
- Page Navigation buttons go to first, previous, next,
last page, or by number.
Programmer Benefits:
- One set of routines for Printing & Previewing
- Supports all TCanvas routines (except for PenPos & Pix
els)
- Built-in routines eliminate round-off errors for
pagination
- Automatically clips non printable area on Preview
- Returns the true physical page size (not just
printable area)
- Returns all printer info (page size, printable area,
pixels/inch, etc)
- Conversion routines for inches to printer units
- All Preview Screen scaling performed automatically
- Programmer can implement Exception Handling to catch
Print Preview Errors
- Simple & Advanced print pagination is supported
- Customizable Preview Form
-Show/hide buttons
-Change the title
-Select min, max, and step for Zooming
-Set initial settings
Fully functional - not crippled in any way
The unregistered version of this component has an "About" box on
the Preview screen that indicates the component has not been reg
istered.
Pricing and Ordering Information
Registering Print Preview is U.S. $20. This provides you with
the source code to Print Preview, and technical support for using
Print Preview. Note that support is only provided for unmodified
version of the source code. If you have email I can just email
you the registered component (and source code).
Send a check or money order to:
Print Preview Component Software
Care of: Ben Ziegler
210 E. Fairfax St #624
Falls Church, VA 22046
Revision History
Version 1.05
Released October 24, 1995
Bug fix: Added Printer.EndDoc after Printer.Abort. Now you
can cancel a print job and still print again.
MAJOR BUG FIX: I now treat the Printer object as VOLATILE -
as it should be since it is global and I have no control over
it. Before all print routines, the required printer param
ters are set to the correct values. This fixed problems of
the fonts not being what they should be, etc.
Text for the printer is now set to transparent by default.
This is a better option since the programmer can always do a
Rectangle with the desired background before doing a TextOut.
Bug fix: The user can now use Printer Setup from within the
Print Dialog box. I accomplished this by closing down the
Print Preview screen before going to the Print Dialog (this
is a feature, not a bug!) so that it now works.
