PRINT PREVIEW IN VB

[sagarrasal]

Dear Friends,

This is regarding adding print preview to vb projects.
Most of us require print preview somewhere in our projects.
I searched hard to find some solution to add print preview to the applications such as labels printing, invoice printing etc.The commercial products like dll's ocx etc. are very costly and simple programmers like us cannot afford them for single project .
I am sure there is a simple way to add multipage preview
to the project. I wish to seek the help of experts like you regarding the same.

So,please help...!

Thanks and regards

 

[VDavid]

The preview depends in the environment your reports are.
For example en Data Report, you can have the multipage preview with

 DataReport1.Show 1

You can also try with Crystal Report.
Or doing by your self in a memo or in a grid.

Hope this helps,

David.

 

[CassandraR]

Hi Sagarrasal:

Per Rod Stephens book, Visual Basic Graphics Programming, since the PictureBox control and the Printer object have essentially the same graphical commands, one can easily do a preview by sending the commands to a PictureBox control. When one wants to do the actual print, then redirect the commands to the Printer object.

The same graphics routines can be used for both PictureBox controls and Printer objects if one passes in an Object variable that points to either the PictureBox control or the Printer object.

Description of the book:

http://www.vb-helper.com/vbgp.htm

HTH,
Cassie