How To Print a Form That Is Too Large for the Screen or Page

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I have a big form which I intend to hold all the details of a company's data but I needed to have the form printed. I tried using the printform method but it only prints some part of the form. I made some searches but found articles in vb6 that used the hDC of a pictrebox to print a form but I don't know how to implement such in vb.net. Please can someone help me with the code to print the form. Thanks

Posted 27-Dec-14 23:04pm

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Richard MacCutchan 28-Dec-14 5:13am

Search the articles section; there are a number of sample print articles.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2014-12-27T23:16:00

Solution 1

Look at the PrintDocument class[^] - it allows you to specify exactly what is printed, where, and what size. You shouldn't use PrintForm - it's a poor solution that doesn;t generally give good results. It's only real use is for debugging when you need an image of the whole screen to show an error properly.

Posted 27-Dec-14 23:16pm

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Member 11048282 28-Dec-14 5:26am

It would have been a great solution if I had wanted to print a text file. But I want to print the form and all of its controls which I still can't figure out how to do so with the Print Document Class.

OriginalGriff 28-Dec-14 5:30am

You can print whatever you want with a PrintDocument class, that's the whole point...

Maciej Los 28-Dec-14 10:25am

+5!

Maciej Los · Answer 2 · 2014-12-28T04:25:00

Solution 2

Alternativelly: How to: Print a Form by Using the PrintForm Component (Visual Basic)[^]

Posted 28-Dec-14 4:25am

Maciej Los