by Richard Russell, October 2015

The article Improving the print quality describes one way of improving the quality of hardcopy output from LBB. An alternative approach is to use a large (normally) invisible window, of a sufficient size to achieve the desired quality, and then to send it to the printer using the GUI print command. Here's an example, using a large invisible window to give 600-dpi equivalent quality (LBB only; it doesn't work properly in LB):

      PaperWidth = 7.0   ' Printable width in inches
      PaperHeight = 10.0 ' Printable height in inches
      DotsPerInch = 600  ' Equivalent DPI quality
 
      WindowWidth = PaperWidth * DotsPerInch
      WindowHeight = PaperHeight * DotsPerInch
      stylebits #preview, 0, _WS_VISIBLE, 0, 0
      open "Printer Preview" for graphics_nf_nsb as #preview
 
      title$ = "My centered page title"
      #preview "font Arial 0 200 underscore"
      #preview "stringwidth? title$ stringwidth"
      #preview "place ";(WindowWidth-stringwidth)/2;" ";500
      #preview "color blue"
      #preview "\"; title$
      #preview "color red; size 20"
      #preview "place ";WindowWidth/2;" ";WindowHeight/2
      #preview "down; circle ";WindowWidth/4
      #preview "print ";WindowWidth
      close #preview