Printing rotated text to the printer

[mgoarrow]

I found and incorporated John Percival's tip here at VB World on how to print text rotated 90 degrees to a picture box. How do you print that rotated text to the printer? I'm trying to print the form but the rotated text doesn't print correctly.

Thanks for your help!

[Megatron]

Just paint the picture box to the printer.

Printer.PaintPicture Picture1.Picture, 0, 0

[mgoarrow]

I tried that but received an "Invalid Picture" error. Not really sure what's happening.....the problem I'm having is that I want to print the entire form object along with all picture boxes that may contain rotated text.

Thanks for your quick reply!

[Megatron]

Set the Picture to the Image, then print it:

Picture1.AutoRedraw = True
 
'Code to draw rotated Text goes here
 
Set Picture1.Picture = Picture1.Image 
Printer.PaintPicture Picture1.Picture, 0, 0

[mgoarrow]

Thanks again Megatron for your help!

That did the trick - after setting the PictureBox to the Image, I am able to use the PrintForm method to print the entire form.

[Megatron]

Yeah, this is usually something a lot of people forget. Always remember, that whenever do drawing operations, API or otherwise, (with the exception of functions that require you to pass an StdPicture object), that it will be drawn on the Image property.