Graphics Programming with GDI+

11.5. The PrintDocument and Print Events

So far we have seen how to print simple text and how to read and set printer settings. In the previous sections we saw that in a printing application, we create a PrintDocument object, set its printer name, set the printpage event handler, and then call the Print method. PrintDocument offers more than this. In this section we will cover PrintDocument members and print events.

The PrintDocument class is used to tell the printing system how printing will take place. Table 11.4 describes the properties of the PrintDocument class.

Besides the properties described in Table 11.4, PrintDocument also provides printing-related methods that invoke print events. These methods are described in Table 11.5.

Table 11.4. ...