Printing into a PrintPreview control II

Blogged by Björn Meyer on November 19, 2007 and tagged with Printing, Samples.

In this sample, I explained how to print into a .NET Framework PrintPreviewDialog control.

http://www.textcontrol.com/downloads/library/printing/preview2/

A customized PrintController has been derived from the PrintController class. But I forgot to tell you to reset the PrintController after initializing the dialog. This is important, because the dialog provides a button to print the content to the specified printer directly. If the PrintController is the inherited one, its content will not be printed.

Therefore, we have to pass a new PrintController, after the dialog has been initialized. We can attach an Actived event where the dialog will be opened:

pp.Activated += new EventHandler(pp_Activated);

In the event, we will create a new PrintController:

void pp_Activated(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    pp.Document.PrintController = new StandardPrintController();
}

The PrintPreviewDialog must be accessible in this sample:

private PrintPreviewDialog pp = new PrintPreviewDialog();