RE: Strange Blackbox Printing Problem...

From: Martin, Marc <"Martin,>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:32:59 -0700

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>I have seen a strange problem which may or may not be related.
>It is actually an opposite of yours. The line is not drawn on screen,
>but it is printed. The problem is located somewhere in f.DrawPath.
>You mentioned DrawPath, what triggered my response.

Sounds like a different problem!

I took a closer look at my problem, and I think it has something to
do with excessive data. And I also think it has something to do
with f.DrawOval. I say this because I put some counters in and
found that the plot required 9420 calls to f.DrawOval (!), plus
had 16 calls to f.DrawPaths for a total of 2052 path points. I
limit all paths to a maximum of 512 points each because I think
that's a limitation within Blackbox.

In any case, my problem goes away if I take out the calls to
f.DrawOval, so I expect I've run into some limitation. But
like I said, it's just a limitation in printing -- it shows
up on the screen just fine, and I can cut and paste it into
Powerpoint and print it there just fine.

Marc
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