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user1975195
user1975195

Reputation: 35

Printing a form in vb.net

I wrote a small program to store and hopefully print contact information (in vb.net). The program contains a few text fields and a picture box. Saves the Information and so on. Can anyone recommend a quick way to save the form to a format that can then be transferred to her work computer and printed (she can't install my program at work, taboo policy and so on). Using the printform control, printform.print() with the PrintAction set to PrintToFile is just giving me garbled junk. I guess I could print to an html file bit by bit, but I thought I'd ask if anyone knows a better way. Also, with the html route I'm not sure how I'd add the contents of the picture box. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1416

Answers (1)

Mark Hall
Mark Hall

Reputation: 54532

You can try saving your Form to a Bitmap using the DrawToBitmap Method which could then be saved as an image then printed out later, the main problem you will run into with this method is that the DPI settings are different between the screen and a printer.

Dim bmp As Bitmap = New Bitmap(Me.Width, Me.Height)
Me.DrawToBitmap(bmp, New Rectangle(New Point(0, 0), Me.Size))
bmp.Save("C:\temp\123.bmp") 'Set your path and your filename here

Upvotes: 2

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