PrintPreview?

[Adam Right]

Hi,

I am using .Net Framework 2.0 final, and i use .Net printing library to
print a document. I use printPreview dialog to print the document but after
preview was shown, when i press the "print" button, i cannot print the
document although there is some words on the preview. So, is there a bug in
the preview?

Thanks...

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Re: PrintPreview?

Adam,

Without seeing your code, it's impossible to say. You might have a bug
in your code.

Can you post a complete example?

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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mvp@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am using .Net Framework 2.0 final, and i use .Net printing library to
> print a document. I use printPreview dialog to print the document but
> after preview was shown, when i press the "print" button, i cannot print
> the document although there is some words on the preview. So, is there a
> bug in the preview?
>
> Thanks...
>[/color]

[Adam Right]

Re: PrintPreview?

Hi,

Hi,

My code is on the below,

m_PrintDocument = new PrintDocument( );
m_PrintDocument .PrintPage += new PrintPageEventH andler(
m_PrintDocument _PrintPage );
PrintPreviewDia log printPreviewDia log1 = new PrintPreviewDia log ( );
printPreviewDia log1.Document = m_PrintDocument ;
Form m_Temp = ( Form ) printPreviewDia log1;
m_Temp.WindowSt ate = FormWindowState .Maximized;
printPreviewDia log1.ShowDialog ( );

void m_PrintDocument _PrintPage( object sender, PrintPageEventA rgs e )
{
Font printFont = new Font ( "Courier" , 10 , FontStyle.Regul ar );
String myString = "Trying";
e.Graphics.Draw String( myString, printFont, Brushes.Black, 0, 0, new
StringFormat( ) );
}

The printPreview dialog does not print my document although there are words
on the document.
Thanks..
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mvp@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote in
message news:%232MBAj7D GHA.2724@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..[color=blue]
> Adam,
>
> Without seeing your code, it's impossible to say. You might have a bug
> in your code.
>
> Can you post a complete example?
>
> --
> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
> - mvp@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
>
> "Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
> news:%23GWyVS5D GHA.3528@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..[color=green]
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using .Net Framework 2.0 final, and i use .Net printing library to
>> print a document. I use printPreview dialog to print the document but
>> after preview was shown, when i press the "print" button, i cannot print
>> the document although there is some words on the preview. So, is there a
>> bug in the preview?
>>
>> Thanks...
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Adam Right]

Re: PrintPreview?

Hi,

can you give your mail address. I want to send yo an attachment in which
there is a screen shot about this problem....

"Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
news:Ox5pct7DGH A.2040@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> My code is on the below,
>
> m_PrintDocument = new PrintDocument( );
> m_PrintDocument .PrintPage += new PrintPageEventH andler(
> m_PrintDocument _PrintPage );
> PrintPreviewDia log printPreviewDia log1 = new PrintPreviewDia log ( );
> printPreviewDia log1.Document = m_PrintDocument ;
> Form m_Temp = ( Form ) printPreviewDia log1;
> m_Temp.WindowSt ate = FormWindowState .Maximized;
> printPreviewDia log1.ShowDialog ( );
>
> void m_PrintDocument _PrintPage( object sender, PrintPageEventA rgs e )
> {
> Font printFont = new Font ( "Courier" , 10 , FontStyle.Regul ar );
> String myString = "Trying";
> e.Graphics.Draw String( myString, printFont, Brushes.Black, 0, 0, new
> StringFormat( ) );
> }
>
> The printPreview dialog does not print my document although there are
> words on the document.
> Thanks..
> "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mvp@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote
> in message news:%232MBAj7D GHA.2724@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..[color=green]
>> Adam,
>>
>> Without seeing your code, it's impossible to say. You might have a
>> bug in your code.
>>
>> Can you post a complete example?
>>
>> --
>> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
>> - mvp@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
>>
>> "Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
>> news:%23GWyVS5D GHA.3528@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..[color=darkred]
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using .Net Framework 2.0 final, and i use .Net printing library to
>>> print a document. I use printPreview dialog to print the document but
>>> after preview was shown, when i press the "print" button, i cannot print
>>> the document although there is some words on the preview. So, is there a
>>> bug in the preview?
>>>
>>> Thanks...
>>>[/color]
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Re: PrintPreview?

Adam,

You can post it here, and I will see it. No need to hide it from the
rest of the group.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mvp@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m

"Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
news:eySIW67DGH A.2704@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> can you give your mail address. I want to send yo an attachment in which
> there is a screen shot about this problem....
>
> "Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
> news:Ox5pct7DGH A.2040@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My code is on the below,
>>
>> m_PrintDocument = new PrintDocument( );
>> m_PrintDocument .PrintPage += new PrintPageEventH andler(
>> m_PrintDocument _PrintPage );
>> PrintPreviewDia log printPreviewDia log1 = new PrintPreviewDia log ( );
>> printPreviewDia log1.Document = m_PrintDocument ;
>> Form m_Temp = ( Form ) printPreviewDia log1;
>> m_Temp.WindowSt ate = FormWindowState .Maximized;
>> printPreviewDia log1.ShowDialog ( );
>>
>> void m_PrintDocument _PrintPage( object sender, PrintPageEventA rgs e )
>> {
>> Font printFont = new Font ( "Courier" , 10 , FontStyle.Regul ar );
>> String myString = "Trying";
>> e.Graphics.Draw String( myString, printFont, Brushes.Black, 0, 0, new
>> StringFormat( ) );
>> }
>>
>> The printPreview dialog does not print my document although there are
>> words on the document.
>> Thanks..
>> "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mvp@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote
>> in message news:%232MBAj7D GHA.2724@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..[color=darkred]
>>> Adam,
>>>
>>> Without seeing your code, it's impossible to say. You might have a
>>> bug in your code.
>>>
>>> Can you post a complete example?
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
>>> - mvp@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
>>>
>>> "Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
>>> news:%23GWyVS5D GHA.3528@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am using .Net Framework 2.0 final, and i use .Net printing library to
>>>> print a document. I use printPreview dialog to print the document but
>>>> after preview was shown, when i press the "print" button, i cannot
>>>> print the document although there is some words on the preview. So, is
>>>> there a bug in the preview?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks...
>>>>
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Bruce Wood]

Re: PrintPreview?

Nicholas,

I prepared a response for Adam, telling him that he was using
PrintDocument incorrectly. Then I read the "about PrintDocument"
documentation for the .NET Framework 1.1, and found that he was
following their instructions exactly. This let to a question:

Do you know whether PrintPreviewDia log, when you choose "Print..." from
the menu, re-uses the original instance of the PrintDocument you pass
it, or instantiates a new PrintDocument for the printing process
itself?

I ask because I've always inherited from PrintDocument and overridden
OnPrintPage, rather than handling the PrintPage event of a "vanilla"
PrintDocument. The former approach has always worked for me. However,
if PrintPreviewDia log instantiates a _new_ PrintDocument instance
internally in order to print, the latter method (the method recommended
by MS in its documentation) _won't_ work.

[Adam Right]

Re: PrintPreview?

Hi,

Is there a basic solution for this problem, i cannot understand complex
english sorry...

"Bruce Wood" <brucewood@cana da.com> wrote in message
news:1136227963 .180319.131660@ o13g2000cwo.goo glegroups.com.. .[color=blue]
> Nicholas,
>
> I prepared a response for Adam, telling him that he was using
> PrintDocument incorrectly. Then I read the "about PrintDocument"
> documentation for the .NET Framework 1.1, and found that he was
> following their instructions exactly. This let to a question:
>
> Do you know whether PrintPreviewDia log, when you choose "Print..." from
> the menu, re-uses the original instance of the PrintDocument you pass
> it, or instantiates a new PrintDocument for the printing process
> itself?
>
> I ask because I've always inherited from PrintDocument and overridden
> OnPrintPage, rather than handling the PrintPage event of a "vanilla"
> PrintDocument. The former approach has always worked for me. However,
> if PrintPreviewDia log instantiates a _new_ PrintDocument instance
> internally in order to print, the latter method (the method recommended
> by MS in its documentation) _won't_ work.
>[/color]

[Bruce Wood]

Re: PrintPreview?

I have a potential solution, but it will have to wait until tomorrow,
when I will be back in the office and will have a printer with which to
test.

I want to write a little test program to discover whether my theory is
correct.

[Ron Allen]

Re: PrintPreview?

Adam,
Since you are putting the text at 0,0 on the page you may be outside the
'hard margin' of the printer and thus not printing anything. Try it again
with 100, 100 which should be 1" down and 1" right from the page edge using
the standard coordinates. Alternately you could try setting OriginAtMargins
to true for the PrintDocument (I think).

Ron Allen
"Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
news:Ox5pct7DGH A.2040@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> My code is on the below,
>
> m_PrintDocument = new PrintDocument( );
> m_PrintDocument .PrintPage += new PrintPageEventH andler(
> m_PrintDocument _PrintPage );
> PrintPreviewDia log printPreviewDia log1 = new PrintPreviewDia log ( );
> printPreviewDia log1.Document = m_PrintDocument ;
> Form m_Temp = ( Form ) printPreviewDia log1;
> m_Temp.WindowSt ate = FormWindowState .Maximized;
> printPreviewDia log1.ShowDialog ( );
>
> void m_PrintDocument _PrintPage( object sender, PrintPageEventA rgs e )
> {
> Font printFont = new Font ( "Courier" , 10 , FontStyle.Regul ar );
> String myString = "Trying";
> e.Graphics.Draw String( myString, printFont, Brushes.Black, 0, 0, new
> StringFormat( ) );
> }
>
> The printPreview dialog does not print my document although there are
> words on the document.
> Thanks..
> "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mvp@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote
> in message news:%232MBAj7D GHA.2724@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..[color=green]
>> Adam,
>>
>> Without seeing your code, it's impossible to say. You might have a
>> bug in your code.
>>
>> Can you post a complete example?
>>
>> --
>> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
>> - mvp@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
>>
>> "Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
>> news:%23GWyVS5D GHA.3528@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..[color=darkred]
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using .Net Framework 2.0 final, and i use .Net printing library to
>>> print a document. I use printPreview dialog to print the document but
>>> after preview was shown, when i press the "print" button, i cannot print
>>> the document although there is some words on the preview. So, is there a
>>> bug in the preview?
>>>
>>> Thanks...
>>>[/color]
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Adam Right]

Re: PrintPreview?

Hi Ron,

I have tried that but the printed document still is empty. I do not
understand that if there are some words on the preview, what is the reason
that it does not print that words? in Beta 2, i can print with the same
code. So i am wondering about Framework 2.0 in which there may be a bug in
print document. I do not know how can i handle that problem, because it is
very important for me and my customers. Thanks...

"Ron Allen" <RonAllen@newsg roups.nospam> wrote in message
news:O$XC1SHEGH A.272@TK2MSFTNG P10.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Adam,
> Since you are putting the text at 0,0 on the page you may be outside
> the 'hard margin' of the printer and thus not printing anything. Try it
> again with 100, 100 which should be 1" down and 1" right from the page
> edge using the standard coordinates. Alternately you could try setting
> OriginAtMargins to true for the PrintDocument (I think).
>
> Ron Allen
> "Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
> news:Ox5pct7DGH A.2040@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My code is on the below,
>>
>> m_PrintDocument = new PrintDocument( );
>> m_PrintDocument .PrintPage += new PrintPageEventH andler(
>> m_PrintDocument _PrintPage );
>> PrintPreviewDia log printPreviewDia log1 = new PrintPreviewDia log ( );
>> printPreviewDia log1.Document = m_PrintDocument ;
>> Form m_Temp = ( Form ) printPreviewDia log1;
>> m_Temp.WindowSt ate = FormWindowState .Maximized;
>> printPreviewDia log1.ShowDialog ( );
>>
>> void m_PrintDocument _PrintPage( object sender, PrintPageEventA rgs e )
>> {
>> Font printFont = new Font ( "Courier" , 10 , FontStyle.Regul ar );
>> String myString = "Trying";
>> e.Graphics.Draw String( myString, printFont, Brushes.Black, 0, 0, new
>> StringFormat( ) );
>> }
>>
>> The printPreview dialog does not print my document although there are
>> words on the document.
>> Thanks..
>> "Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mvp@spam.guard .caspershouse.c om> wrote
>> in message news:%232MBAj7D GHA.2724@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..[color=darkred]
>>> Adam,
>>>
>>> Without seeing your code, it's impossible to say. You might have a
>>> bug in your code.
>>>
>>> Can you post a complete example?
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
>>> - mvp@spam.guard. caspershouse.co m
>>>
>>> "Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
>>> news:%23GWyVS5D GHA.3528@TK2MSF TNGP12.phx.gbl. ..
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am using .Net Framework 2.0 final, and i use .Net printing library to
>>>> print a document. I use printPreview dialog to print the document but
>>>> after preview was shown, when i press the "print" button, i cannot
>>>> print the document although there is some words on the preview. So, is
>>>> there a bug in the preview?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks...
>>>>
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]

[Bruce Wood]

Re: PrintPreview?

I ran my little test using .NET 1.1, and I was wrong. Ron Allen's
solution is most likely the correct one.

In my case, your code, as written, works fine in print preview and when
printing from print preview. No problems at all in .NET 1.1.

I'm not using .NET 2.0, so I'll leave it to others to try to reproduce
this behaviour in 2.0.

[Ron Allen]

Re: PrintPreview?

OK, I had to try this here. The following works for me here using VS2005
both in preview mode and in printer output (although I haven't checked for
any hard margin offsets). Note that I've used a stock StringFormat object
and disposed of the Font created. I'm using a Lexmark Optra printer but I
don't think that the printer should make a difference. All my variable are
local as well.

Ron Allen
----------------------------snippet---------------------------------------------------------
private void button1_Click(o bject sender, EventArgs e)
{
PrintDocument m_PrintDocument = new PrintDocument() ;
m_PrintDocument .PrintPage += new
PrintPageEventH andler(m_PrintD ocument_PrintPa ge);
PrintPreviewDia log printPreviewDia log1 = new PrintPreviewDia log();
printPreviewDia log1.Document = m_PrintDocument ;
printPreviewDia log1.WindowStat e = FormWindowState .Maximized;
printPreviewDia log1.ShowDialog ();
printPreviewDia log1.Dispose();
}

void m_PrintDocument _PrintPage(obje ct sender, PrintPageEventA rgs e)
{
Font printFont = new Font("Courier", 10, FontStyle.Regul ar);
String myString = "Trying";
e.Graphics.Draw String(myString , printFont, Brushes.Black, 100, 100,
StringFormat.Ge nericDefault);
printFont.Dispo se();
}

----------------------------snippet---------------------------------------------------------
"Adam Right" <adam@right.com > wrote in message
news:ec9NKxIEGH A.2040@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hi Ron,
>
> I have tried that but the printed document still is empty. I do not
> understand that if there are some words on the preview, what is the reason
> that it does not print that words? in Beta 2, i can print with the same
> code. So i am wondering about Framework 2.0 in which there may be a bug in
> print document. I do not know how can i handle that problem, because it is
> very important for me and my customers. Thanks...
>[/color]