DOCUMENT:Q184675  27-APR-1998  [vbwin]
TITLE   :BUG: PictureBox Prints Incorrectly with PrintForm
PRODUCT :Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows
PROD/VER:WINDOWS:5.0
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:kbnokeyword

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions
   for Windows, version 5.0
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SYMPTOMS
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When you print a form from the IDE or you use the PrintForm method to print
a form containing a PictureBox with its Picture property set to a metafile
(.wmf, .emf), the picture in the PictureBox does not print correctly. The
picture may appear offset from its original location or may not appear at
all.


CAUSE
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The greater the Top and Left properties of the PictureBox control are from
(0,0), the greater the offset of the actual picture in the printed output.
The actual offset of the picture is relative to the size of the form.

RESOLUTION
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The following are three different methods you can use to work around this
problem:

 - Use an Image control rather than a PictureBox control.

 - Set the Picture property of the PictureBox control to a file in another
   graphics format. In addition to metafiles, the Picture property for a
   PictureBox also supports the bitmap (.bmp), icon (.ico), GIF, and JPEG
   file formats.

 - Use another technique to print the form instead of the PrintForm method.
   The following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base discuss
   techniques you can implement to print your form with Visual Basic:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q161299
   TITLE     : HOWTO: Capture and Print the Screen, a Form, or any Window

   ARTICLE-ID: Q178076
   TITLE     : HOWTO: Use a PictureBox to Control Orientation Printing a
               Form

STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed
at the beginning of this article. We are researching this bug and will post
new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes
available.

MORE INFORMATION
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Steps to Reproduce Behavior
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1. Start a new project in Visual Basic.

2. Draw a PictureBox control in the upper-left corner of Form1. Set the
   Picture property to any metafile.

   NOTE: You can find some metafiles in the Graphics\Metafile of your
   Visual Basic directory.

3. Add the following code to the Click event of Form1:

      PrintForm
      Picture1.Move 2000
      PrintForm

4. Press F5 to run the project.

5. Click Form1.

RESULTS: Notice that the first PrintForm prints the image correctly.
However, the second PrintForm, which executes after the Picture control is
moved, prints the image incorrectly. Depending on the picture you selected,
and the size of the form, the picture may appear off-center or not appear
at all.

Additional query words: move left top meta file picture box
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Keywords          : kbnokeyword
Version           : WINDOWS:5.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug

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