Printing Text Related Issue.

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I am trying to understand or more over figure it out how it works.

Here is an example what I am trying to achieve:

A printing area with height 5mm and width 20mm.
Now my target is to print a text that will stretched enough to fill 5mm and 20mm area.

I need to create a function or set of functions that will help me to determine the proper height and width of a font.

Any suggestion?

Posted 21-Nov-13 19:28pm

Mohibur Rashid

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nv3 · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-21T21:44:00

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My first idea would be to select an appropriate font according to the height of your box and render the text into a memory bitmap. It probably has not the desired width, as you can't influence the aspect ratio of the font. Then in a second step compute the required horizontal stretching/compression factor and stretchblt the memory bitmap into your display area.

Posted 21-Nov-13 21:44pm

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Mohibur Rashid 22-Nov-13 5:21am

Not a good idea but I will keep in mind, i wrote a set of functions, they work fine with display but fail with printer. Not the suggested way. Its just a way of setting font width and see if it match the width