Setting PageOrientation for the Wpf DocumentViewer PrintDialog

Question

Using the Wpf DocumentViewer control I can't figure out how to set the PageOrientation on the PrintDialog that the DocumentViewer displays when the user clicks the print button. Is there a way to hook into this?

Answer 1

The workaround I used to set the orientation on my DocumentViewer's print dialog was to hide the print button on the DocumentViewer control by omitting the button from the template. I then provided my own print button and tied it to the following code:

public bool Print()
    {
        PrintDialog dialog = new PrintDialog();
        dialog.PrintQueue = LocalPrintServer.GetDefaultPrintQueue();
        dialog.PrintTicket = dialog.PrintQueue.DefaultPrintTicket;
        dialog.PrintTicket.PageOrientation = PageOrientation.Landscape;

        if (dialog.ShowDialog() == true)
        {
            XpsDocumentWriter writer = PrintQueue.CreateXpsDocumentWriter(dialog.PrintQueue);
            writer.WriteAsync(_DocumentViewer.Document as FixedDocument, dialog.PrintTicket);
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

Answer 2

Mike's answer above works. The way I chose to implement it was to instead create my own doc viewer derived from DocumentViewer. Also, casting the Document property to FixedDocument wasn't working for me - casting to FixedDocumentSequence was.

GetDesiredPageOrientation is whatever you need it to be. In my case, I'm inspecting the first page's dimensions, because we generate documents that are uniform size and orientation for all pages in the document, and one doc in the sequence.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Xps;
using System.Printing;
using System.Windows.Documents;

public class MyDocumentViewer : DocumentViewer
{
    protected override void OnPrintCommand()
    {
        // get a print dialog, defaulted to default printer and default printer's preferences.
        PrintDialog printDialog = new PrintDialog();
        printDialog.PrintQueue = LocalPrintServer.GetDefaultPrintQueue();
        printDialog.PrintTicket = dialog.PrintQueue.DefaultPrintTicket;

        // get a reference to the FixedDocumentSequence for the viewer.
        FixedDocumentSequence docSeq = this.Document as FixedDocumentSequence;

        // set the default page orientation based on the desired output.
        printDialog.PrintTicket.PageOrientation = GetDesiredPageOrientation(docSeq);

        if (printDialog.ShowDialog() == true)
        {
            // set the print ticket for the document sequence and write it to the printer.
            docSeq.PrintTicket = printDialog.PrintTicket;

            XpsDocumentWriter writer = PrintQueue.CreateXpsDocumentWriter(printDialog.PrintQueue);
            writer.WriteAsync(docSeq, printDialog.PrintTicket);
        }
    }
}