Printing with different fonts

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Bryan

I am having a problem where if I try to specify more than one point size in
a device context, it does not work. Please look at the following code and
let me know what I am doing wrong... I'm about at my wits end!..
All I am trying to do is print one line with a point size of 10, and the
next line with a point size of 8. In my code, what happens is that both
lines end up printing with a point size of 8...???!!! Changing the weight
of the font seems to work ok, so I'm stumped as to why I can't change the
point size...

Thanks for any help!..

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PRINTDLG pDdlg;
DEVMODE *mode = NULL;
CDC dcPrint;
DOCINFO myPrintJob;
CFont font;

// Get Printer
CPrintDialog dlgPrint(FALSE, PD_ALLPAGES,NULL);
if(AfxGetApp()->GetPrinterDeviceDefaults(&pDdlg))
{
mode = (DEVMODE *) GlobalLock(pDdlg.hDevMode);
GlobalUnlock(pDdlg.hDevMode);
}

dlgPrint.m_pd.hDevMode = mode;

if(dlgPrint.DoModal() == IDOK)
{
dcPrint.Attach(dlgPrint.GetPrinterDC());
myPrintJob.cbSize = sizeof(myPrintJob);
myPrintJob.lpszDocName = "MyTestDocument";
myPrintJob.lpszOutput = NULL;
myPrintJob.fwType = NULL;
} else {
// They canceled...
return 0;
}

if (dcPrint.StartDoc(&myPrintJob) < 0)
{
AfxMessageBox(_T("Printer would not initialize!"));
return 0;
}

int PointSize = 10;

LOGFONT lf;
memset(&lf, 0, sizeof(LOGFONT));
lf.lfHeight = -MulDiv(PointSize, dcPrint.GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSY), 72);
strcpy(lf.lfFaceName, "Courier New");
lf.lfWeight = FW_NORMAL;

if (!font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf))
{
AfxMessageBox("Failed Creating Font!..");
return 0;
}

/////////////////////// HERE IS THE PROBLEM /////////////////////
CString szTV = "Hello World!";
int dVcntr = 0;

dcPrint.SelectObject(&font[x]);
dcPrint.TextOut(0, dVcntr, szTV);

dVcntr += (PointSize * 10);

// Change our font attributes...
PointSize = 8;
lf.lfHeight = -MulDiv(PointSize, dcPrint.GetDeviceCaps(LOGPIXELSY), 72);
lf.lfWeight = FW_BOLD;

if (!font.CreateFontIndirect(&lf))
{
AfxMessageBox("Failed Creating Font!..");
return 0;
}

dcPrint.TextOut(0, dVcntr, szTV);
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

dcPrint.EndPage();
dcPrint.EndDoc();
dcPrint.Detach();
font.DeleteObject();
 
Thanks to anyone who looked at this, but I found the solution... The
problem was when I reused the lfHeight property of the LOGFONT structure. I
am still not sure why this caused the problem, but it seems that the entire
document takes on the characteristics of the last lfHeight. I solved this
by creating a separate LOGFONT structure for each CFont object I used...
 
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