Chapter 27. Printing

This chapter explains how to add printing capabilities to your application. When it comes to developing applications, printing support is more than just writing text to a printer. Applications should give the user the capability to choose a printer, optionally print to a file, a page range for the printout, and ideally the capability to preview the printing on the screen before sending the output to the printer.

The Microsoft .NET Framework provides classes in the System.Drawing. Printing assembly for just this purpose. Using the classes in this assembly you can easily add your own printing support, and you don't need to be an advanced developer to do it.

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