Pixels, cm, Header, Footer

[NuclearPing]

I'm just evaluating "VPE 3.60 Standard" with "Delphi 6 Professional" to check if and how we can implement it in our project to replace an old printing engine.

I've got some questions:

- How can I place a picture right bound?

Like I want the picture to be placed at PageWidth - PictureWidth. I tried following:

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  HsReport.Picture (HsReport.nRightMargin - tmpBmp.Width, 150,
                    VFREE, VFREE,
                    FClientImageFile, PIC_KEEPIMAGE or PIC_IN_FILE);

But the picture is not where I want it to be. Its over the border of the paper. I can understand that this is because the measurements of the paper are in cm / inches and the picture width is in pixels. How can I fix this? Just use any "Pixels to Cm"-conversion routine I can find?

- How can I create Header / Footer text?

We want to have some client informations and company logo in the header and some text and page numbers (x of y) in the footer. How can I realize this?

[IDEAL Software Support]

You can use the method VPE.RenderPicture() to compute the width and height of an image (without inserting it into a document) in metric units.

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HsReport.RenderPicture (VFREE, VFREE,
                    FClientImageFile, PIC_KEEPIMAGE or PIC_IN_FILE);

Afterwards you can retrieve the width of the image with the property nRenderWidth and insert the image with:

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HsReport.Picture (HsReport.nRightMargin - HsReport.nRenderWidth, 150,
                    VFREE, VFREE,
                    FClientImageFile, PIC_KEEPIMAGE or PIC_IN_FILE);

For Headers and footers, please see the help file titled "Programmer's Manual", in the chapter "Programming Techniques", subchapter "Multipage Documents", section "Headers and Footers".

Regards
Thorsten Radde
IDEAL Software GmbH

[NuclearPing]

Works perfectly, thanks!