Observation: XoJo makes printing harder than it should be

[Michel_Bujardet]

My point was not to say anything but the fact that page printing is fundamentally different than line printing.

When you send a text file to an HTMLViewer, you are in fact sending a page to it.

As for printing in C++ or Assembly language, you frankly have no idea about how complex it can get.

[Ivan_Tellez]

@Michel_Bujardet

When you send a text file to an HTMLViewer, you are in fact sending a page to it.

No is NOT. in FACT it is JUST TEXT. If the HTMLViewer internally creates a “page” to print the text is another thing.

@Michel_Bujardet

In the VB6 era, printing was mostly done on line printers (dotmatrix), hence the very simple writeline.

That is nonsense, dotmatrix were dominant in the 70s and 80s, for the VB6 era the (Late 90s) market had plenty of inkjet and Laser printers.

@Michel_Bujardet

Today, line printers are a vintage rarity, and most every printer is page oriented. Hence the need to create a printer object and print graphically to it.

VB6 Printer object was “page oriented” and print graphically??? more nonsense, the apps just sent commands to the print API, just like VB6, it is not like they send a rastered representation of the page.

[Steve_Batson]

My point was not to say anything but the fact that page printing is fundamentally different than line printing.

Agreed

When you send a text file to an HTMLViewer, you are in fact sending a page to it.

Understood, but the HTMLViewer is doing the hard work.

As for printing in C++ or Assembly language, you frankly have no idea about how complex it can get.

While I don’t know printing in those languages, I did use both many years ago and I fully understand how complex many tasks can be in them. That’s the reason there are so many APIs and Libraries to ease the pain. It’s also the reason that I don’t use them today. I don’t have the time, energy or desire to put into them for my purposes.

[Beatrix_Willius]

@Steve_Batson

I just wrote my data out to a text file

Why don’t you load the text directly into the HtmlViewer?

[Steve_Batson]

Initially, I was saving the text to a file and then opening it in the default text editor. When the recommendation came to use HTML Viewer, all I had to do is have it load the file. The rest of the code was already in place.