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Using the PrintDocument

Control
CHAPTER 6:
PRINT
METHOD Using the Print method to
print reports from your
application.
THE PRINTDOCUMENT CONTROL

¡ This control allows you to send output to the printer.


¡ To place a PrintDocument control on a form:

Double-click the PrintDocument tool in the Printing


1 section of the Toolbox

Appears in the component tray at design time


2 because the control is invisible at runtime.

Use the prefix pd when naming the control


3
THE PRINT METHOD

¡ The PrintDocument control has a Print method that


starts the printing process using the following general
format:
PrintDocumentControl.Print()

¡ When the method is called, it triggers a PrintPage


event.
¡ You must write code in the event handler to initiate
printing.
THE PRINTPAGE EVENT (1 OF 2)

¡ To create a PrintPage event handler code template:


¡ Double-click the PrintDocument control in the component tray
¡ The event handler code template appears in the Code window:

Private Sub pdPrint_PrintPage(...) Handles pdPrint.PrintPage

End Sub
THE PRINTPAGE EVENT (2 OF 2)

¡ Inside the PrintPage event handler


¡ You write code that sends text to the printer
using a specified:
¡ Font
¡ Color
¡ Location
¡ With the e.Graphics.DrawString method
THE E.GRAPHICS.DRAWSTRING METHOD
(1 OF 3)

¡ The general format to call e.Graphics.DrawString


method:

e.Graphics.DrawString(String, New Font(FontName,


Size, Style), Brushes.Black, HPos, VPos)
The name of the font
The size of the
The string to be printed to use
font in points

e.Graphics.DrawString(String, New Font(FontName,


Size, Style), Brushes.Black, HPos, VPos)
The vertical
position of the
The font style (bold,
output
italic, regular, strikeout The horizontal
or underline) The output should position of the
be printed in black output

THE E.GRAPHICS.DRAWSTRING METHOD


(2 OF 3)
THE E.GRAPHICS.DRAWSTRING METHOD
(3 OF 3)

¡ The following PrintPage event handler prints the string


“Sales Report” in abold 18 point Courier font. The horizontal
and vertical coordinates of the output are 150 and 80.

Private Sub pdPrint_PrintPage(…) Handles pdPrint.PrintPage


e.Graphics.DrawString(“Sales Report”, New
Font(“Courier”, 18, FontStyle.Bold), Brushes.Black,
150, 80)
End Sub
END OF CHAPTER 6

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