Calculating amount of pages with PrintDoc

[thiago777]

How to show a progress bar with the status of the printing process, thought pages are processed one by one and I cant estimate how many pages will be used to print the hole document ?

I am in need of this because I'll have to print huge amount of data, maybe more than 5 thousand pages, and it would be nice to show how much of it had already been processed.

Any ideas?

[thiago777]

I am using the PrintPage event handler that is fired everytime a page is build:

Private Sub PrtDoc_PrintPag e(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.Drawing. Printing.PrintP ageEventArgs) _
Handles PrintDoc.PrintP age

but I cant precisely discover how many pages will be necessary to print my StringBuilder that is used to create the pages because I can have just a few characters in it that represents a whole blank page for example.

Please any idea would be very helpfull
tks in advance.