[RESOLVED] Making text transparent printer object

[vbrad]

Hi
Probably a noob question here and I likely won't explain it very well.
I am trying to overprint a document, just putting Xs in various boxes mainly
The way I've done it is to use the paintpicture method of the printer object first
to print an image of the document and then use the print method to put the Xs at the correct locations
before finnally using enddoc.
It works fine except that on parts of the document background that aren't white
you can see that every letter is contained in a white box.
Is there any easy way of just printing the letter and have it's background transparent
so it doesn't obscure the picture behind?
Thanks for any help

[Magic Ink]

Did you give the SetBkMode API a try? As in,

Declaration

Public Declare Function SetBkMode Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hdc As Long, ByVal nBkMode As Long) As Long
Public Const TRANSPARENT = 1
Public Const OPAQUE = 2

Code

SetBkMode Printer.hdc, TRANSPARENT

Ref.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ngdi-setbkmode

[vbrad]

That worked perfectly!
Thank you!!

[dilettante]

See Printer.FontTransparent instead.

[vbrad]

See Printer.FontTransparent instead.

Wow, I can't believe I missed that. Thanks!