C#.NET print WYSIWYG text in multiple pages from multiple text boxes

[Anil Veeraghattapu 4]

Hi, I am developing a windows application in that i have some number of rich text box user controls the text in that rich text box can be bold, italic, various fonts and various colours now i need to implement a Print() which prints the text from all the rich text boxes. the printed content should be WYSIWYG... i am able to print the content form a single rich text box to multiple pages but i need to modify that in such a way that it prints each page for each rich text box. please provide me any sample codes or any examples Thanks Anil Veeraghattapu.

[Arindam Sinha]

Anil, Check this out for C#[^] and this one for VB[^]. Hope this would help you.

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[Anil Veeraghattapu 4]

Hi, That code is to print the content from only one rich text box control but i need to print the content from multiple text boxes. each page should have the text from each rich text box control Thanks Anil Veeraghattapu

[Arindam Sinha]

Anil709 wrote:

That code is to print the content from only one rich text box control

This surprised me :^) I donot know if you have even tried to achieve this implementation[^] for multiple text boxes. I did it for two text boxes. I just had some custom code (which i did really in a hurry, it can be organised more better) for two controls FirstrichTextBox & SecondrichTextBox. Follow the instructions as mentioned in that link and modify the BeginPrint and PrintPage events -

private int checkPrintFirstControl;
private int checkPrintSecondControl;
bool firstControlDone = false;
private void printDocument1_BeginPrint(object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintEventArgs e)
{
checkPrintFirstControl = 0;
checkPrintSecondControl = 0;
}

private void printDocument1_PrintPage(object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e)
{
//Verify if your First control is printed or not
if (!firstControlDone)
{
// Print the content of First RichTextBox. Store the last character printed.
checkPrintFirstControl = FirstrichTextBox.Print(checkPrintFirstControl, FirstrichTextBox.TextLength, e);

            // Check if you are done with printing the first RichTextBox
            if (checkPrintFirstControl >= FirstrichTextBox.TextLength)
                firstControlDone = true;
            //Setting this because you have to print second control
            e.HasMorePages = true;
        }
        else
        {
            checkPrintSecondControl = SecondrichTextBox.Print(checkPrintSecondControl, SecondrichTextBox.TextLength, e);

            // Check for more pages for the first RichTextBox
            if (checkPrintSecondControl < SecondrichTextBox.TextLength)
                e.HasMorePages = true;
            else
            {
                e.HasMorePages = false;
                firstControlDone = false;
            }

        }

    }

If you need the full sample then send me your email id.

Regards,

[Anil Veeraghattapu 4]

Hi, your code is really impressive. it appears it will solve my problem. can you please send me the sample to my mail id my mailID: anilveeraghattapu@gmail.com Thanks Anil Veeraghattapu.

[Anil Veeraghattapu 4]

Hi it seems your code is trying to print text from only one text box right?? it could print either first text box data or from second text box data but what i need is i have to print text from all the text boxes in page wise i think you understood my problem. consider ms word. if you click on print preview it will prints text from each page of the word document to a real page. i want to achieve similar kind of thing. Thanks Anil Veeraghattapu

[Arindam Sinha]

Anil709 wrote:

it could print either first text box data or from second text box data

No..what I tried is to print both textboxes content in a single print click. Though I have no printer installed, I checked in the Print preview (I guess that should be enough). There, the First text box's content is shown in 2/3 pages and in next pages 2nd content is shown. Anyway I have sent you the code in your email id. Note - I coded very fast just to verify if multiple Rich text boxes can be printed or not. It could be done in better way. :)

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