Zoom Property

Description

Gets or sets the percentage by which printed output is to be scaled up or down (if the printer supports this feature).

Property Type

Read-write property

Syntax

Visual Basic
Public Property Zoom As Long

Return Type

A long value which represents the percentage of printed output is to be scaled up or down.

Remarks

Not available at design time.

The Zoom property setting scales the size of the physical page up or down, by a factor of Zoom/100, to the apparent size of the printed output. For example, a letter-size page printed with Zoom set to 50 contains as much data as a page of the size 17 by 22 inches because the printed text and graphics are scaled to one-half their original height and width.

Note: The effect of setting the Zoom property depends on the driver supplied by the printer manufacturer. Some property settings may have no effect. Settings outside the accepted range may produce an error. The ErrorCode property will be set to -5015 or -5016 if the printer does not support this property. For more information, see the manufacturer's documentation for the specific printer driver.