Slow printing

  • Thread starter Thread starter Guest
  • Start date Start date
G

Guest

Anyone have any tips to speed up the print process in VB .NET. I am trying
to print an accounting batch journal, which are sometimes 5+ pages long, and
they are taking between 8-10 seconds for the print sub of the print document
to complete (VB6 version took +-1 second). Inside the PrintPage event, I am
pulling items from an array, assigning to a string, and using
graphics.drawstring to format the report:
strFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near
str2Prt = aryPrt(PrintLine).F1
sngCurY = intTopMargin + (intLineCount *
fntRegular.GetHeight(grPage))
sngLenTxt = grPage.MeasureString(str2Prt, fntRegular).Width
rectF = New RectangleF(sngDataCol1, sngCurY, sngLenTxt,
fntRegular.GetHeight(grPage))
grPage.DrawString(str2Prt, fntRegular, Brushes.Black, rectF,
strFormat)

Is there a better way to do this or is there a consensus that slow printing
is the norm in .NET? Any help or comments would be appreciated. Thanks.

-Chris
 
Anyone have any tips to speed up the print process in VB .NET. I am trying
to print an accounting batch journal, which are sometimes 5+ pages long, and
they are taking between 8-10 seconds for the print sub of the print document
to complete (VB6 version took +-1 second). Inside the PrintPage event, I am
pulling items from an array, assigning to a string, and using
graphics.drawstring to format the report:
strFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Near
str2Prt = aryPrt(PrintLine).F1
sngCurY = intTopMargin + (intLineCount *
fntRegular.GetHeight(grPage))
sngLenTxt = grPage.MeasureString(str2Prt, fntRegular).Width
rectF = New RectangleF(sngDataCol1, sngCurY, sngLenTxt,
fntRegular.GetHeight(grPage))
grPage.DrawString(str2Prt, fntRegular, Brushes.Black, rectF,
strFormat)

Is there a better way to do this or is there a consensus that slow printing
is the norm in .NET? Any help or comments would be appreciated. Thanks.

-Chris
Click to expand...

Which lines are taking a long time to complete?

Thanks,

Seth Rowe
 
Seth,

In general, it appears the drawstring takes longer, but it seems as though
the whole PrintPage process that takes longer. The example code I included
is part of select case where each line is printed according to a lineID and
an array is parsed for the data to print. I guess I am operating under the
assumption that the graphics.drawstring is the standard for printing in .NET
and there really aren't any other viable printing options. Any comments
would be appreciated. Thanks.

-Chris
 
Back
Top