New Sample: Building a Print Preview for TX Text Control .NET for WPF
A print preview control, that can be compared to the Windows Forms print preview control, is not part of the standard WPF control set. In order to preview what is actually printed, a WPF DocumentViewer can be used. Generally, this document viewer renders WPF FixedDocuments. Due to TX Text Control's special WYSIWYG rendering, TextControl can't be connected to this viewer directly. Anyway, it is quite easy to utilize this out-of-the-box viewer effectively as a print preview control using TX…
In order to preview what is actually printed, a WPF DocumentViewer can be used. Generally, this document viewer renders WPF FixedDocuments. Due to TX Text Control's special WYSIWYG rendering, TextControl can't be connected to this viewer directly.
Anyway, it is quite easy to utilize this out-of-the-box viewer effectively as a print preview control using TX Text Control's Page Rendering Engine. Each page is rendered on a FixedPage of the FixedDocument and displayed in the standard viewer.
Download the sample from GitHub and test it on your own.
Download and Fork This Sample on GitHub
We proudly host our sample code on github.com/TextControl.
Please fork and contribute.
Requirements for this sample
- Visual Studio 2012 or better
- TX Text Control .NET for WPF (trial sufficient)
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