Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

Page Settings

You may have noticed that both the MarginBounds and the PageSettings properties of the PrintPageEventArgs class are read-only. Changing PageSettings on-the-fly (including the margins) requires handling the print document's QueryPageSettings event:

Sub printDocument1_QueryPageSettings(sender As Object, _
  e As QueryPageSettingsEventArgs)
  ' Set margins to 0.5" all the way around
  ' (measured in 100ths of an inch)
  e.PageSettings.Margins = New Margins(50, 50, 50, 50)
End Sub

QueryPageSettingsEventArgs provides only a Cancel property and a PageSettings property. The latter is an instance of the PageSettings class:

 Class PageSetings Implements ICloneable ' Constructors Public Overloads Sub New() Public Overloads Sub New(printerSettings ...