PrintForm in Hight quality

[Ciaran O''Donnell]

I have a Control Printer class on my blog (below) which has a function called
GetControlImage which will give you an image of a control, or in your case a
form.
Then you cant print that image however you want, or it can do it for you.

HTH

 

[Tarek Al-Jamal]

Hi,
I am designing a business card application, after designing the card which is a windows form, I want to print the form, but the PrintForm prints in poor quality (96 dpi), is there a way to print the form at the same quality of it controls (images for example)?

please help.

 

[Tarek Al-Jamal]

Thank you for your quick reply, but BitBlt captures the screen in 96 dpi, I want to capture it in high resolution to be printed in high resolution too.
Please help
I have a Control Printer class on my blog (below) which has a function called
GetControlImage which will give you an image of a control, or in your case a
form.
Then you cant print that image however you want, or it can do it for you.

HTH

 

[J.B. Moreno]

I don't believe that there's a way using only managed code. But printing
a form is really a poor way to control printing anyway. You would be
better off simply using the data from the form to print explicitly
yourself (using PrintDocument, etc.).

This seems to be the thinking of MS (i.e. the reason why they don't
include a printform method in the framework)....both you and they are
wrong.

Printing the data from the form explicitly is, in a lot of cases,
simply a duplication of effort -- you have already spent time and
effort getting the layout of the controls and labels for your data into
an acceptable state.

Now you're supposed to spend *more* time and effort making a *new*
layout that presents the same data (with appropriate labels)....why?

IME in most cases the form on the screen is a perfectly acceptable
layout, and every second you spend on the new layout and getting it to
print beyond typing in MyForm.Print() is wasted.

 

[J.B. Moreno]

You are welcome to your opinion. Suffice to say, I disagree.

In any case, being argumentative and dismissive isn't going to get you
anywhere. If I thought you were open to new ideas, I'd explain your
mistake to you.

Oh, I'm open to new ideas, but it'd have to be some argument to show
that having fewer choices is better than having more choices.

But it's clear you've made up your mind. Good luck with
that.

And you accused me of being dismissive...

 

[Tarek Al-Jamal]

It will be very nice if you can guide me on any site has samples for printing the form using PrintDocument.
Thanks

Hi,
I am designing a business card application, after designing the card
which is a windows form, I want to print the form, but the PrintForm
prints in poor quality (96 dpi), is there a way to print the form at the
same quality of it controls (images for example)?

I don't believe that there's a way using only managed code. But printing
a form is really a poor way to control printing anyway. You would be
better off simply using the data from the form to print explicitly
yourself (using PrintDocument, etc.).

Pete