How to print WPF Grid paged?

Question

Hi!

I'm printing a WPF grid. As long as the data fits on one page, everything works fine. But sometimes the grid contains more data. Therefore I need to split the grid into multiple pages. Can anybody help me?

My code looks like this (visual is the grid).

var printCapabilities = printDialog.PrintQueue.GetPrintCapabilities(printDialog.PrintTicket);

var size = new Size(printCapabilities.PageImageableArea.ExtentWidth,
     printCapabilities.PageImageableArea.ExtentHeight);

visual.Measure(size);
visual.Arrange(new Rect(new Point(printCapabilities.PageImageableArea.OriginWidth,
    printCapabilities.PageImageableArea.OriginHeight), size));

printDialog.PrintVisual(visual, "Print ListView");

Should I try another control? I've tried WPF Toolkit DataGrid, but I couldn't manage to get it printed. I've heard something of a flow document, can this help me?

Best Regards
Oliver Hanappi

Answer 1

Hi,

i got the same problem. Did you found a solution? There must be one ... otherwise you can forget about WPF.

Best regards martin

Answer 2

It sounds like you want to use PrintDocument instead of PrintVisual. You will probably need to implement your own DocumentPaginator class to split your grid into separate printable documents, though.