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John, There's also another very good reason to use GetDeviceCaps to determine the printable page size. If you know the actual printable page length, it's then easy to adjust your printing to any length paper. Compute the number of verticle twips on the page and subtract whatever you want for top and bottom margins and 1 line of text. Then just print from some form of loop and increment the CurrentY yourself by the number of verticle twips required for each line. Each time you increment the CurrentY, test the new value against the maximum computed above. If the new CurrentY is greater than the maximum, you've filled the page and it's time to start a new page. This is especially handy with laser printers may be use either letter or legal size paper. Another really nice API function for printing is SetTextAlign. By default, windows aligns text characters based on the top of each character's cell. If you use only one font in a document, that's fine. But if you want to use several fonts, this can result in some funny looking typography because their base lines don't lineup, even if they're the same point size. By resetting the text alignment to TA_BASELINE which aligns characters on their typographical baselines, you can now mix different fonts and different sizes and they line up correctly. If you do this, just remember that with base aligned text, CurrentY is the text baseline and not the top of the character cell. Printing the first line with CurrentY = 0 will only print the descenders of text characters on that line. –dennis There is 1 Reply.