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Change printed background color, how?

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    I use FillRect(...) for the screen but I can't get it to work for a printer. App is pretty much ordinary MFC with Doc/View arch. A little unusual is that I use worker threads for printing and painting. The threads use GDI resources instead of CDC. Did I hear you ask why? I use an image printer to print straight to jpg files. I want a dark background in some of the jpgs. Then I use Windows Movie Maker to add the jpgs and a soundtrack. Walla, out pops an MP4. Loads of fun.

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      I use FillRect(...) for the screen but I can't get it to work for a printer. App is pretty much ordinary MFC with Doc/View arch. A little unusual is that I use worker threads for printing and painting. The threads use GDI resources instead of CDC. Did I hear you ask why? I use an image printer to print straight to jpg files. I want a dark background in some of the jpgs. Then I use Windows Movie Maker to add the jpgs and a soundtrack. Walla, out pops an MP4. Loads of fun.

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      If you use a proper device context it should work just the same: WYSIWYG.

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        If you use a proper device context it should work just the same: WYSIWYG.

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        I figured it out, Richard. You have to do a FillRect(...) on the pristine CRect rcl = pInfo->m_rectDraw (in OnPrint()). That should happen before the printer thread is started. Thanks.

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