>I recently copied a proc from an internet site (www.news2news.com/vfp) that allowed printing of VFP screens. This proc was different than others I had seen in the past because it allowed printing of a screen on a dot matrix printer without the screen background color and in a legible format. It worked great on Win98, however when I do this proc from a Win2000/WinXP machine the print quality if much lower ( even when printer resolution is all the way up) and the printer emulates the screen background by printing dots. The result is awful. I believe the difference is in the way the systems handle the WinFunction CreateCompatibleBitMap. Is there any other function I can use? Or, does someone know of a screen printing routine that works on all WinVersions with Dot Matrix printers. Thanks.

AFAIK, the only difference between the Win9x/Me version of the function and the MT/2K/XP versions is that the latter can handle bitmaps greater than 16Mb. It sounds to me that difference isn't in CreateCompatibleBitmap(), but rather in the method used to retrieve the device context for the dot matrix prnter. This is purely a SWAG, however.

If you're conversant in VB, you maybe want to look at MSKB#Q161299.