Print Document reduction

Russell Padgett 21

I currently have the below code to print active form in my Visual Studio 2019 project. It works 'sortof'. It prints out about 60% of the screen (starting at the upper left corner of the screen). Is there a way to print the entire screen by resizing the document to 60%.

Private Sub Button2Print_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Button2Print.Click

    Try  

        PrintDocument1.DefaultPageSettings = printsetting  
        PrinterSettings.PrintAction = PrintAction.PrintToPrinter  
        PrinterSettings.Print(Me, PowerPacks.Printing.PrintForm.PrintOption.Scrollable)  
        Me.Refresh()  

    Catch ex As Exception  

    End Try  
    PrintDocument1.Print()  
 
End Sub

Viorel 114.7K Reputation points

2021-07-07T05:16:30.687+00:00

Does it print anything if you comment or remove this line: PrintDocument1.Print()?

Also add MsgBox(ex.Message) before End Try to make sure that there are no unaddressed errors.
Xingyu Zhao-MSFT 5,361 Reputation points

2021-07-07T05:50:00.13+00:00

Hi @Russell Padgett ,
Could you provide more related code about how you print active form?
You can also share your project here, and it will help us reproduce your problem.
We are waiting for your update.
Russell Padgett 21 Reputation points

2021-07-08T17:05:05.12+00:00

I removed the PrintDocument1.Print() statement and there was no change.
I also added the MsgBox(ex.Message) and no errors were reported.

Some additional information: My project runs on full screen mode when going from screen to screen and my laptop has a 17.5" screen size (15 x 8.5" rectangle). I'm trying
to Printout the entire screen. I guess what I'm really trying to do you capture the screen then shrink it to a size the printer can print out in one page
Viorel 114.7K Reputation points

2021-07-08T19:39:51.33+00:00

It seems that PrintDocument1.Print( ) was not needed because printing is done by PowerPacks component.

Instead of using the PowerPacks component, which seems obsolete, and since you want to print an image, not a form, maybe you should consider a more usual PrintDocument1.Print( ) printing, which is described in documentation, for example: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/advanced/how-to-print-graphics-in-windows-forms. You will add a handler for PrintPage event, where you can draw the image using e.Graphics.DrawImage. It is possible to determine the page size and scale the image accordingly.
Xingyu Zhao-MSFT 5,361 Reputation points

2021-07-29T06:56:49.273+00:00

Hi @Russell Padgett ,
Do you still meet this issue? Please let me know if you need further help.

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