how to get the paper name

[ashxly]

recently, i worked on printing program. can anyone help me how to get the name of a system pre-defined paper? such as : value 1 return Letter (8.5 x 11 in.) thanks

[CodeBrain]

I think that may be a problem of the printer driver rather than the problem of the system. I don't know it exactly, but the paper size is defined in the DEVMODE printer struct (member: dmPaperSize). But here the definiton is only per number (symbolic constant). So I think the printer driver does the mapping from those numbers to the string which is visible in the windows common printer dialog!

[ashxly]

thank you CodeBrain, I do know the member of DEVMODE dmPaperSize identitify the dimension of the paper. but not very easy to get the size in strings. maybe the only thing i can do is mapping constants to strings by myself.

[Joel Lucsy]

Look up DeviceCapabilities specifing DC_PAPERNAMES Joel Lucsy

[ashxly]

thank you Joel, it works using DeviceCapabilities function. very kind of you