Sometimes I want to skip a page - How to do that

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In the handler QueryPageSettings I let the user select a "Skip This Page"
option.

But I don't know how to handle it if he does.

I can set a flag and in PrintPage skip printing the page but the page count
in Printer and Faxes still increments.

I can cancel the entire print job but can not find anything that will enable
me to skip one page.


Anyone know how?
 
* " Just Me said:
In the handler QueryPageSettings I let the user select a "Skip This Page"
option.

But I don't know how to handle it if he does.

I can set a flag and in PrintPage skip printing the page but the page count
in Printer and Faxes still increments.

I can cancel the entire print job but can not find anything that will enable
me to skip one page.
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Just don't print the page. How to prevent printing strongly depends on
how you handle printing of the pages.
 
Herfried K. Wagner said:
Just don't print the page. How to prevent printing strongly depends on
how you handle printing of the pages.
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Not sure what you mean. I now in PrintPage only bump my page number variable
and exit.

But the system must consider the fact that PrintPage is entered its a page
(I guess a blank one, I never checked).

Unless someone knows how to tell the system not to add a page to the print
document I'll have to try do it all in QueryPageSettings (but that's not
without a problem). I wish I could in QueryPageSettings or in PrintPage tell
the system not to add this page to the output.

To illustrate the problem think of a 10 page document. For each page, in
QueryPageSettings I ask the user if he want to print the page. Say he does
for the first 9 pages but on page 10 he says not to print page 10. I don't
know what to do. As soon as I exit, PrintPage will get called and if I do
nothing in PrintPage a blank page gets added to the document.


Any ideas how avoid that?


 
* " Just Me said:
Not sure what you mean. I now in PrintPage only bump my page number variable
and exit.

But the system must consider the fact that PrintPage is entered its a page
(I guess a blank one, I never checked).

Unless someone knows how to tell the system not to add a page to the print
document I'll have to try do it all in QueryPageSettings (but that's not
without a problem). I wish I could in QueryPageSettings or in PrintPage tell
the system not to add this page to the output.

To illustrate the problem think of a 10 page document. For each page, in
QueryPageSettings I ask the user if he want to print the page. Say he does
for the first 9 pages but on page 10 he says not to print page 10. I don't
know what to do. As soon as I exit, PrintPage will get called and if I do
nothing in PrintPage a blank page gets added to the document.
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In 'PrintPage', you can do something like that:

\\\
Private m_NextPageToPrint As Integer

Private Sub MyPrintDocument_PrintPage(...) Handles ...
Select Case m_NextPageToPrint
Case 1
e.Graphics.DrawString(...)
Case 2
e.Graphics.DrawString(...)
Case 3
...
Case 4
...
End Select
e.HasMorePages = ShouldNextPageBePrinted(...)
End Sub

Private Function ShouldNextPageBePrinted(...) As Boolean
If ... Then
...
m_NextPageToPrint = 4
...
Return True
Else
Return False
End If
End Function
///
 
That looks good. I'd also have to do something in case the first (few)
page(s) are not printed.

Thanks a lot
 
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