Can I PrintToFIle in Access, or possibly spoof the fax driver to create Tifs? - windows

Question

I built calculator in Access using a user form. The goal of the calculator is to document the steps taken by the user in solving a problem. It's similar to a high-school student being told to 'show their work'. I need to record a visual representation of the form. A PDF would be perfected, but I can't use PDFs.
I'm limited to file formats that are supported by our imaging server.
I know that the imaging server supports: tif, jpg, bmp and rtf. It might support other formats.
I know that these formats don't work: pdf, gif and png.
I'm an inexperienced coder (less than 6 mos), and I came up with a solution which I suspect is subpar. Occasionally, it seems to just stop working.
Essentially, I copy the form using keybd_event, and paste it into a word document, and save it as a tif file.
Is there a more conventional way of accomplishing this?
Here's my code:
Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal _
bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)
Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2
Private Const VK_SNAPSHOT = &H2C
Private Const VK_MENU = &H12
Public Sub sendToFaf()
Dim appWord As New Word.Application
Dim docWord As New Word.Document
Dim imgWord As InlineShape
Dim thisForm As Form
Dim oldPrinter As String
Dim rnd As Integer
Dim strRnd As String
Dim oldWidth As Integer
Dim oldHeight As Integer
On Error GoTo ProcessError
DoCmd.Echo (False)
DoCmd.Hourglass (True)
Set appWord = CreateObject("word.application")
Set docWord = appWord.Documents.Add
Set thisForm = Screen.ActiveForm
appWord.Visible = False
appWord.DisplayAlerts = wdAlertsNone
oldWidth = thisForm.InsideWidth
oldHeight = thisForm.InsideHeight
thisForm.InsideWidth = 10800
thisForm.InsideHeight = 11925
keybd_event VK_MENU, 0, 0, 0
DoEvents
keybd_event VK_SNAPSHOT, 0, 0, 0
DoEvents
keybd_event VK_SNAPSHOT, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
keybd_event VK_MENU, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0
DoEvents
thisForm.InsideWidth = oldWidth
thisForm.InsideHeight = oldHeight
rnd = Int((10000 - 0 + 1) * Math.rnd + 0)
strRnd = Format(rnd, "0000")
With docWord.PageSetup
.TopMargin = 0
.BottomMargin = 0
.LeftMargin = 0
.RightMargin = 0
.VerticalAlignment = wdAlignVerticalCenter
End With
docWord.Paragraphs.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphCenter
appWord.Selection.Paste
Set imgWord = docWord.InlineShapes(docWord.InlineShapes.Count)
imgWord.Width = InchesToPoints(8.5)
oldPrinter = appWord.ActivePrinter
appWord.ActivePrinter = "FAX"
appWord.PrintOut _
Background:=False, _
outputfilename:="c:\a faf\" & thisForm.Name & strRnd & ".tif", _
PrintToFile:=True
MsgBox ("File created: 'c:\a faf\" & thisForm.Name & strRnd & ".tif'")
appWord.ActivePrinter = oldPrinter
ProcessExit:
Set imgWord = Nothing
docWord.Close savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
appWord.Quit savechanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges
Set docWord = Nothing
Set appWord = Nothing
Set thisForm = Nothing
DoCmd.Echo (True)
DoCmd.Hourglass (False)
Exit Sub
ProcessError:
MsgBox Err.Number & vbCrLf & Err.Description & vbCrLf & "Sub SendToFaf"
GoTo ProcessExit
End Sub