PrintPagesA

Rendering and printing

Description

The trailing A denotes the ANSI (char) DLL entry point; the ActiveX/COM surface exposes only the Unicode form. Behaviour is identical to PrintPages and string arguments are interpreted using the current SetAnsiMode code page

Renders a page range list from the selected document to the specified printer

Syntax

Delphi

Function DLPrintPagesA(InstanceID: Integer; PrinterName, PageRanges: PAnsiChar; Options: Integer): Integer;

DLL

int DLPrintPagesA(int InstanceID, const char * PrinterName, const char * PageRanges, int Options);

Parameters

PrinterNameThe name of the printer to use for printing. This is the name that appears in the Windows Print Manager. Use the GetPrinterNames function to return a list of valid printers on the system. A value returned by the NewCustomPrinter function can also be used here
PageRangesA list of pages to print, for example "1-10,12,14"
OptionsUse the PrintOptions function to obtain a value for this parameter

Return values

0An error occurred
1The pages were printed successfully