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diff --git a/html/en/drv/printer.html b/html/en/drv/printer.html index 3ef31d4..6b6ca19 100644 --- a/html/en/drv/printer.html +++ b/html/en/drv/printer.html @@ -84,6 +84,28 @@ before creating the canvas.</p> the name of the selected printer.</li> </ul> +<h3>Notes</h3> + +<h4>Patterns</h4> +<p>Usually when printing regions filled with patterns you have to compensate for +the printer high resolution or the pattern will come out very small. If you +don't want to create a high resolution version of your pattern, then the +simplest way is to use <strong>wdCanvasPattern</strong> to resize the pattern to +an expected millimeter size. This will increase the pattern raster size so it +will be more visible in the printer.</p> +<p>But on some printers the result were not what we expect:</p> +<ul> + <li> + Laser printers automatically increase the real size of the pattern, so it + seems that <strong>wdCanvasPattern</strong> is not necessary on those + printers.</li> + <li> + PDF and Postscript based printer drivers (like Adobe PDF Creator and CutePDF + Writer) need that the pattern has a width multiple of 8, if not they will + appear distorted with an increasing horizontal shift on every line. This + does NOT applies to the CD_PDF or CD_PS drivers.</li> +</ul> + </body> </html> |