Visual Basic® Programmer's Guide to the .NET Framework Class Library

Chapter 6. Font, Text, and Printing Operations

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Key Classes Related to Font, Text, and Printing Operations

• Font, Text, and Printing

• Fonts

• Learning by Example: FontPad, a Simple Text Editor

• Printing

• Learning by Example: Adding Printing Capabilities to FontPad

• Printing and Font-Related Controls and Dialog Boxes

Font, printing, and text manipulation together represent one of the more complex parts of the Windows operating system. Fortunately, the .NET Framework Class Library simplifies this for all of us. The classes presented in this chapter should give you enough insight into this technology to become very productive, very quickly.

The chapter focuses primarily on the namespaces System.Drawing.Printing, System.Drawing.Text, and to some ...