Another Printing Question

  • Thread starter Thread starter Anne DeBlois
  • Start date Start date
A

Anne DeBlois

Hi,

I am currently testing the printing features of Visual Studio 2005 (VB.NET)
We want to release a database application that prints label pages. The
labels must contain a picture box.

I found this code to print an image:

e.Graphics.DrawImage(Image.FromFile("c:\\dev\\Projects\\Impression\\merci.png"),
20, 750)

With this code, the picture will print with its original dimensions. Is it
possible to change this line with a picturebox or any control that allows us
to resize the image (and keep its proportions) within a limited space?

Thanks in advance!

ANNE DEBLOIS
 
Anne DeBlois said:
I am currently testing the printing features of Visual Studio 2005
(VB.NET) We want to release a database application that prints label
pages. The labels must contain a picture box.

I found this code to print an image:

e.Graphics.DrawImage(Image.FromFile("c:\\dev\\Projects\\Impression\\merci.png"),
20, 750)

With this code, the picture will print with its original dimensions. Is it
possible to change this line with a picturebox or any control that allows
us to resize the image (and keep its proportions) within a limited space?
Click to expand...

You can basically pass the scaled height and width to 'DrawImage'. Note
that backslashes inside string literals must not be escaped in VB.NET.
 
Herfried K. Wagner said:
You can basically pass the scaled height and width to 'DrawImage'. Note
that backslashes inside string literals must not be escaped in VB.NET.
Click to expand...

You mean I can pass parameters to the DrawImage method?

As for the escaped backslashes, I had to do it because I got a first chance
exception (FileNotFound) using "simple" backslashes when compiling...
Someone suggested that I escape them.

Thanks!

A.D.
 
Anne DeBlois said:
You mean I can pass parameters to the DrawImage method?
Click to expand...

Yes, just check out the different overloads in the documentation or the
object browser.
As for the escaped backslashes, I had to do it because I got a first
chance exception (FileNotFound) using "simple" backslashes when
compiling... Someone suggested that I escape them.
Click to expand...

Sorry, but that's nonsense for VB.NET -- are you sure you are using VB.NET?!
 
Herfried K. Wagner said:
Yes, just check out the different overloads in the documentation or the
object browser.
Click to expand...

Thank you very much!
Sorry, but that's nonsense for VB.NET -- are you sure you are using
VB.NET?!
Click to expand...

Of course, I am using VB.NET in VS2005. And yeah, that's a nonsense but it
got me rid of that filenotfound exception at that time.

Anne
 
Back
Top