Need information about PrintDocument

Prasad Godbole

Hi,

I need one information about print document. We are using following line of code in VB.NET WinForm application .

Dim print_document As New System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument
widthValue = print_document.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.Bounds.Width

In variable widthValue we are getting integer value.

Can anyone please tell what is the unit of this value? i.e. it's pixel, mm etc...

Thanks and Regards
Prasad

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Sunny Sharma13y ago
Accepted answer
Hi Prasad Godbole,

The unit is in Pixels for sure unless you don't change it explicitly.
"PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.Bounds" inherits a Rectangle (for reference please follow the link below) and a Rectangle has it's width defined in pixels by default. Refer to this and see the Remarks section: Rectangle.Width.

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Thanks.
Prasad Godbole13y ago
Hi Sunny,

Thanks for giving information.

Thanks and Regards
Prasad
Sunny Sharma13y ago
Hi,

With this single line code snippet, I can only assume that it is used for scaling fonts dedicated to display on a particular output device. A value of 96 corresponds to 100% font scaling (smaller), 120 corresponds to 125% scaling (medium) and 144 corresponds to 150% scaling (larger). However, users are able to set values other than these standard ones.

Thanks.
Prasad Godbole13y ago
Hi,

We are working on 1 WinForm application related to reports in which following code is there

_currentX = PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.Bounds.Width * (1440 / Dpix)

Here _currentX is X location to render text.

Can you please explain meaning of following code if you have any idea? i.e. what we are doing here and why

PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.Bounds.Width * (1440 / Dpix)

Here Dpix is the current system DPI setting value.

Thanks and Regards
Prasad
Prasad Godbole13y ago
Hi Sunny,

Thanks for giving information.
I am going through this.

Thanks and Regards
Prasad
Prasad Godbole13y ago
Hi Vulpes,

Thanks for giving information.
I am going through this.

Thanks and Regards
Prasad
Vulpes13y ago
According to this MSDN link, the unit is 1/100ths of an inch:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.pagesettings.bounds.aspx