Printing areas of a form and increasing the size

Printing areas of a form and increasing the size

• RenoMike

  Hi Sassie,

  The PrintForm component will only print the actual size of the form. If I'm misunderstanding the problem please feel free to contact me directly at JohnHart@Microsoft.com and I'll be glad to see if I can help.

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  Thanks

  
  
  

• Divyajosephjohn

  No this does not solve my problem. The result I get is the same but with a black area underneath the form I have a screen print but I can't paste it in here! Is there anyway of sending to you so youcan see my problem

  
  

• bes7252

  Hi, you can email me using the email from my profile

  I do not know about enlarging. To avoid black areas I used form.Show() before printing the form.

  About printing part of the form you can use few possibilities.

  First you can define the client area that you want to print (the example is from John's response to my question)

  Sub PrintForm()

  
  'Set the client Size acording to needable size
  Dim tSize As New Size(Me.ClientSize.Width, Me.ClientSize.Height)
  Dim intWidth As Integer = 780
  Dim intHeight As Integer = your size for print
  Me.ClientSize = New Size(intWidth, intHeight)

  PrintForm1.Print(Me, PowerPacks.Printing.PrintForm.PrintOption.ClientAreaOnly)

  
  'set everything back the way it was
  Me.ClientSize = tSize
  

  End Sub

  Second you can put the information to print on the special panel on you form and then create temporary form. Add this panel to the Controls of the temporary form and print this form. Do not forget to put the panel back. Something like this:

  //create temporay form

  Form FormForPrint = new Form();

  FormForPrint.Show();

  //add panel from your form to temporary form

  FormForPrint.Controls.Add(pnlForPrint);

  PrintForm1.Form = FormForPrint

  PrintForm1.Print();

  //Hide or Close temporary form

  FormForPrint.Hide() or Close() //according to your needs

  //return the panel for print back to the main form

  this.Controls.Add(pnlForPrint)

  Hope it will help

  
  

• Tryin2Bgood

  Please look to Scrollable option problem thread.

  May be it can be helpful for you

  
  
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