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control page break when printing from windows forms .net 2.0

Ed Phillips

18yAsked Feb 14, 2008, 2:50 PM9.5kWindows Forms

Hi,

I have been looking for a way to control page breaks when printing Textbox.Text. I am generating and formatting a short multi-page report and displaying it in a multi-line textbox control. When I print the textbox, I want to be able to set page breaks on the printer as needed. Injecting a form feed character in the text doesn't do it. I haven't been able to find any help on Google yet. Can someone here help me? Thanks.

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Ed Phillips18y ago
I figured a solution: Intercept each line of textbox using StreamReader. Before printing, look for form feed char (\f). If found control hasMorePages and continue 'til done.
Ed Phillips18y ago
Actually, I didn't try using the \f. I am using \r\n. Maybe the \f will make a difference.

Thanks.
Ed Phillips18y ago
Yes, I put ASCII char 12 directly into the text of the textbox. The printer ignores it. In MFC C++ I used this technique successfully. There's something different in .NET. .NET seems to like the "graphics" solution to printing...
Scott Lysle18y ago
Well, you are right, the formfeed character is ascii character 12. I don't think it would make a difference but if you are using Visual Basic, you might try injecting ControlChars.FormFeed, or if it is C#, you might try \f. Again, this likely won't matter since both end up being ascii character 12.