Determine The Length Of A String To Print Using PrintDocument
Oct 19, 2010
Do you know of a way of knowing the lenght a string will ocupy on a .DrawString using PrintDocument?
What I want to do is to break up a string in case it won't fit on the page, do not sugest to search for the lenght of the string itself because I am not interested in the number of characters, as you may know, PrintDocument "draws" the text on the page so on proportionate fonts, the number of characters is independent on the lenght of the output.
this is the line that prints the text:
vb.net
e.Graphics.DrawString(strText, New Font("Arial", 12), Brushes.Black, 10,10)
Of course I could use monospaced fonts like courier or the like but... well, I don't want to.
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I created a little test program for myself and placed three labels on it, each with the same font in a different size. I set the width of the label to 1024, the screenwidth. I used the same test text for each label, cutting it off at the last character that shows, so there is not hidden text running off the label to be included in the string width count.
What I have found is that the width of the string is being reported as wider than the label, even though, as I just mentioned, there are no characters running off the edge of the label. So, something's awry. Does anyone know how to get an accurate width?
Here follows the whole test code. You can drop three labels on a form and run it to see what I mean.
Code: Option Explicit On Option Strict On Public Class frmMain
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