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the name of the selected printer.</li>
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+<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>
+
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