PrintToFile Property

Description

Gets and sets an indicator if the print output from printer devices to disk file is redirected.

Property Type

Read-write property

Syntax

Visual Basic
Public Property PrintToFile As Boolean

Return Type

A boolean value which is True to redirect the print output from printer devices to disk file. Otherwise, False should be used.

Remarks

The degree or quality of color will depend on the Display color card in the machine and particular monitor driving settings. If the display is setup in 256 color mode, than an 8 bit color file is generated. If a 24 bit or higher mode is selected, the color file generated will be 24 bit (true color).

The quality or size of the file generated will depend on the dots per inch (dpi) requested.

The highest dpi is actually machine and Windows OS dependent due to memory limitations. Factors which will affect and limit the dpi resolution will be the paper size, Color (B/W or Color) and Windows operating system (see GetMaxDPI (void) to get maximum possible dpi).

Older Windows 98 machines cannot match the newer Windows operating system for dpi quality.

Use RequestedDPI to set or get the current dpi resolution. The default value is 200 dpi.

Be aware that a high DPI, especially for uncompressed color, can generate a file up to 30 megabytes (per page). Since the control will add pages to an existing file, a multi-page file using uncompressed color data will be enormous.

Compressed Black and White TIFF files can attain higher DPI resolution with less memory. The quality and size of the file generated will depend upon the DPI requested.