Printing chart in c#

Question

Hi all, I am able to print a chart from my c# project using:

chart1.Printing.PrintDocument.DocumentName = "Graph of data";

But is it possible to add a title to this? I was hoping the document name would achieve this, but apparently not!

Thanks..

Answer 1

Here is a workaround solution to your problem, if you place the ChartingControl inside a Panel control on the Windows Form. You can then print the panel, inside the panel you can add the document heading as a label and whatever other stuff you want to add.

Firstly from the toolbox add a PrintDocument control and call it MyPrintDocument

Then add a Panel control and put your chart inside it.

Make sure you have imported the System.Drawing namespace, then you can print the panel like this.

    Bitmap MyChartPanel = new Bitmap(panel1.Width, panel1.Height);
    panel1.DrawToBitmap(MyChartPanel, new Rectangle(0, 0, panel1.Width, panel1.Height));

    PrintDialog MyPrintDialog = new PrintDialog();

    if (MyPrintDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
    {
        System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings values;
        values = MyPrintDialog.PrinterSettings;
        MyPrintDialog.Document = MyPrintDocument;
        MyPrintDocument.PrintController = new System.Drawing.Printing.StandardPrintController();
        MyPrintDocument.Print();
    }

    MyPrintDocument.Dispose();

This code converts the panel into a Bitmap and then prints that Bitmap.

You could condense this into a function like:

public void PrintPanel(Panel MyPanel)
{
   // Add code from above in here, changing panel1 to MyPanel...
}