printer-metrics System Class

Summary

The type of objects containing printer metrics.

Package

capi

Superclasses

t

Description

Instances of the system class printer-metrics are returned by get-printer-metrics. The readers for the slots of a printer-metrics object are described below.

printer-metrics-device-height and printer-metrics-device-width respectively return the height and width of the printable page in the internal units used by the printer driver or printing subsystem of the printer. These functions should not be used to determine the aspect ratio of the printable page as some printers have size units that differ in the x and y directions.

printer-metrics-dpi-x and printer-metrics-dpi-y return the number of printer device units per inch in the x and y directions respectively. This typically corresponds to the printer resolution, although in some cases this may not be known. For example, a generic PostScript language compatible driver might always return 300dpi, even though it cannot know the resolution of the printer the PostScript file will actually be printed on.

printer-metrics-height and printer-metrics-width respectively return the height and width of the printable area in millimeters.

printer-metrics-left-margin and printer-metrics-top-margin respectively return the current left margin and current top margin of the printable area in millimeters.

printer-metrics-max-height and printer-metrics-max-width respectively return the greatest possible height and width of the printable area in millimeters.

printer-metrics-min-left-margin and printer-metrics-min-top-margin respectively return the smallest possible left margin and top margin of the printable area in millimeters.

printer-metrics-paper-height and printer-metrics-paper-width respectively return the height and width of the paper selected for this printer in millimeters.

See also

get-printer-metrics
16 Printing from the CAPI—the Hardcopy API