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September 12, 2001 Printing A Dynamic Template Tips: September 2001
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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When you have a dynamic print template,
you need to loop over its pages one by one when you want to print them. First,
find out how many pages will be printing by counting the DEVICERECT
elements. Second, you need to place them in a collection. Finally, you need to
get its length and assign it to the last page:
Start the print job with the startDoc() method:
Here printer is the ID of the TemplatePrinter. You then loop over all pages and print them. You can access an individual page object through its relevant member of the oDeviceRectCollection collection:
To close the print job, use the
stopDoc() method:
To learn more about print templates, read Column 89 (Print Templates, Part I) and Column 91 (Print Templates, Part II: TemplatePrinter.) Download the Microsoft print template loader.
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