Printing with out printdialogbox or printdialog command

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I've been using this printdialog command before and their's no problem when I'm gonna print I can choose what page/s I want and choosing the specific pages then print it .

This my codes:

C#

using (var dlg = new PrintDialog())
{
   // configure dialog
   dlg.AllowSomePages = true;
   dlg.AllowSelection = true;
   dlg.UseEXDialog = true;
   dlg.Document = Document;

   // show allowed page range
   var ps = dlg.PrinterSettings;
   ps.MinimumPage = ps.FromPage = 1;
   ps.MaximumPage = ps.ToPage = 2;

   // show dialog
   if (dlg.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK)
   {
      //  print selected page range
      _preview.Print();
   }
}

Later on I change the printdialog and i used the combobox to get the available printers then the printbutton w/out the printdialog, but my problem is all pages must be printed and and not the page I set in the Frompage and Topage.
Is there anybody would like to help me ? :(

Here's my codes:

C#

using (var dlg = new PrintDialog())
{
   // configure dialog
   dlg.AllowSomePages = true;
   dlg.AllowSelection = true;
   dlg.UseEXDialog = true;
   dlg.Document = Document;

   // show allowed page range
   var ps = dlg.PrinterSettings;
   ps.MinimumPage = ps.FromPage = 1;
   ps.MaximumPage = ps.ToPage = 2;
   ps.Copies = Convert.ToInt16(numericUpDown1.Value);

   ps.PrinterName = cbox.SelectedItem.ToString();
   _preview.Print();
}

[edit]Code block added[/edit]

Posted 15-Feb-14 0:48am

Member 10332274

Updated 15-Feb-14 1:33am

Nelek

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Nelek 15-Feb-14 7:39am

If the document is bigger than 2 pages, why are you limiting it? Have you tried to give other values into "MinimumPage" and "MaximumPage"?

Member 10332274 15-Feb-14 7:45am

I set that because, I want only to print the first and second pages. But all 5pages would be printed instead of 1 and 2 only

Nelek 15-Feb-14 7:58am

You told: "but my problem is all pages must be printed and and not the page I set in the Frompage and Topage."

So... what is the real problem?
Option 1) You want to print all pages and only get printed 1 and 2?
Option 2) You want to print pages 1 and 2, but you are getting all pages printed?

Member 10332274 15-Feb-14 8:18am

Yeah! Not necessarily the 1st and 2nd pages, I want to print the specific that I want to be printed.
Like this I've changed some of my codes but it doesn't work!

ps.MinimumPage = ps.FromPage = Convert.ToInt16(n1.Value);
ps.MaximumPage = ps.ToPage = Convert.ToInt16(n2.Value);

Nelek 15-Feb-14 8:38am

:doh: :wtf: I give up

Richard MacCutchan 15-Feb-14 10:47am

Show the code where you do the actual printing, and how you check whether that page should be printed or not.

Member 10332274 15-Feb-14 11:30am

All the codes I post are actual printing, but the difference between the first and second is the first is having a printdialog control in order to set the page but the second one is not having a printdialog control, I created a combobox to get the installedprinters and the number of page copy in numericUpdown and printbutton to be print. My problem now is how can I set the specific page to be print, I've used that codes in the second one but it doesn't worked because all the pages are going to print and not the value that I set in the Frompage and ToPage. I think their's some codes to be add but I don't know how. Can you fix that ?

Richard MacCutchan 15-Feb-14 12:08pm

No, because you still have not shown where you do the actual printing. You call the method Print at the end of the sample above, but where is the code that does the actual printing of the data?

Member 10332274 15-Feb-14 12:41pm

Like that ?

public void Print()
{
// select pages to print
var ps = _doc.PrinterSettings;
int first = ps.MinimumPage - 1;
int last = ps.MaximumPage - 1;
switch (ps.PrintRange)
{
case PrintRange.AllPages:
Document.Print();
return;
case PrintRange.CurrentPage:
first = last = StartPage;
break;
case PrintRange.Selection:
first = last = StartPage;
if (ZoomMode == ZoomMode.TwoPages)
{
last = Math.Min(first + 1, PageCount - 1);
}
break;
case PrintRange.SomePages:
first = ps.FromPage - 1;
last = ps.ToPage - 1;
break;
}

// print using helper class
var dp = new DocumentPrinter(this, first, last);
dp.Print();
}

Richard MacCutchan 16-Feb-14 7:16am

I cannot find a reference to the DocumentPrinter class on MSDN. Is this an external class or something of your own?

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M.Hazzouri · Answer 1 · 2014-02-15T02:12:00

Solution 1

after you add choosing printer name to your code you must add this code :

C#

ps.PrintRange = System.Drawing.Printing.PrintRange.Selection;

and for more , add the if statement at the end before printing command

Posted 15-Feb-14 2:12am

M.Hazzouri

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Member 10332274 15-Feb-14 8:40am

What would be the if statement I add?

M.Hazzouri 15-Feb-14 8:50am

if (dlg.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK)
{
// print selected page range
_preview.Print();
}

i mean this ,

Member 10332274 15-Feb-14 9:05am

Yeah! That's the code I've used before, try to read my post. Now I'm trying not to used the printdialog to show but to have it manually by using the combobox to get the printerlist and button to print it directly by not using the printdialog to show.

M.Hazzouri 15-Feb-14 9:33am

oh yeah !! i'm sorry but try the code for (printing range)

Member 10332274 15-Feb-14 10:03am

After the print range? what's next?