Printer: Printing Sample

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The Printer sample shows how to print using both the CreateDC and the PrinterDlg methods for acquiring a printer HDC. The user is allowed to print different graphical objects, as well as a complete device font set. An "Abort" dialog box is also implemented.

The Printer sample also does the following:

• Provides complete device capabilities for all printers and the display.
  
  
• Provides information (levels 1 and 2) returned by a call to EnumPrinters.
  
  
• Shows how to enumerate fonts for a particular DC.
  
  
• Illustrates differences among the various mapping modes.
  
  
• Demonstrates GDI features.

Building SDK Samples

This sample uses the following keywords:

createdc; deletedc; errmsgbox; getlasterror; getstringres; getstringres2; isdbcsleadbyte; mainwndproc; makeintresource; my_mbslen; outnum; outstr; outstr2; outstr3; printdlg; printthread; registerclass; strcat; winmain; wsprintf