Microsoft KB Archive/290146

= An Error Message May Be Displayed When You Print to a Very Large Paper Size =

Article ID: 290146

Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95
 * Microsoft Windows 95

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This article was previously published under Q290146



SYMPTOMS
When you print to large paper sizes, the image that is printed may not be correctly sized, or the program that you are using may display error messages about the size of the image to be printed.



CAUSE
This problem can occur because of the limitation in the size of the coordinate system used by Windows to display and to print images. If the program uses twips as its coordinate system units, this problem can occur when the size of the image exceeds 22.75 inches (577 mm).

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

287168 GDI DPtoLP Function Cannot Return Value Beyond (-32768, 32767)



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a design limitation problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

NOTE: Neither Microsoft Windows NT nor Microsoft Windows 2000 are subject to this design limitation problem.



MORE INFORMATION
A twip is 1/20 of a printer's point (1,440 twips equal one inch and 567 twips equal one centimeter). These measurements are used to designate the size of an object to be printed. By default, all Microsoft Visual Basic movement, sizing, and graphical-drawing statements use a unit of one twip.

Keywords: kbprint kbprb KB290146

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