How to print graphics with Free BASIC.....

[eagle]

Hi all,
please, I would like to know if somebody had got some experiences in graphics printing with Free Basic and how or if there is some tutorials about this subject or about Windows specific API calls (for printing).
I would like to print (with my inkjet printer) an entire graphic grid ( ten rows and ten columns about... or more) with a lot of words printed into.
Can anibody help me ?
Thanks a lot to all.
Bye
eagle

[angros47]

This is a very old topic, but actually the question is interesting: now, 16 years later, has a way to print graphics become available?

The only solution I can think of is saving the screen as a bitmap (using GET and BSAVE), and then calling a program to print the bitmap file with the SHELL command (for example, under Windows it could be 'SHELL "mspaint /p filename.bmp" ' , under linux likely "lp" or "lpr" could be used)

Is there a better solution?

[caseih]

What sort of graphics are you trying to print? A graphics screen doesn't really map all that well to anything printer related, which is why we probably don't have any facility for that in FB.

Last time I needed to print some graphics, I used the Cairo vector drawing library to render to a PDF canvas, which is easily printable.

[TJF]

Use cairo library to create graphics on screen and in a PDF file, and print the file using OS features.