Chapter Summary
The .NET Framework helps you give your applications complete printer control through a set of custom classes. The key object involved is an instance of the PrintDocument class, which represents a document to be printed. When you call the PrintDocument.Print() method, it triggers the PrintPage event of the class. In the PrintPage event, you can retrieve a Graphics object that represents the page to be printed and draw on it by using the familiar methods of the Graphics object.
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Other events of the PrintDocument object let you manage initialization and cleanup for printing and manipulate page settings on a page-by-page basis.
The .NET Framework also provides components that give you access to the built-in ...
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