Syntax
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Public Property SmartPrintRules As SmartPrintRulesCollection | |
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Dim instance As PrintInfo Dim value As SmartPrintRulesCollection instance.SmartPrintRules = value value = instance.SmartPrintRules | |
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public SmartPrintRulesCollection SmartPrintRules {get; set;} | |
Property Value
SmartPrintRulesCollection object containing the collection of optimum printing rulesRemarks
The SmartPrintRulesCollection provides a set of rules that contains the following objects:
- a BestFitColumnRule object
- a LandscapeRule object
- a ScaleRule object and
- a SmartPrintRule object
Together, these rules dictate how Spread tries to fit the sheet onto printed pages. You can change the properties for these objects by setting the objects' properties.
By default, these optimum printing rules provide the following behavior:
- If the information can be printed without the sheet making any changes, the sheet prints in portrait mode.
- If the sheet is wider than a portrait page, the sheet prints in landscape mode.
- If the information does not fit in landscape mode, but will fit in landscape mode if the sheet is reduced up to 60% of its original size, the sheet is scaled to fit within the page.
- If the information cannot be scaled to fit, the sheet tries to reduce column widths to accommodate the widest string within each column.
- If all attempts to make the sheet print within a page fail, printing resumes normally in the current printer orientation with no reductions.
For more information about optimum printing, refer to Optimizing Printing.
Example
This example shows how to define the settings for optimizing the printing.
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// Typically you would use one type of optimization; they are all shown here for illustration only // Define the printer settings for optimization FarPoint.Win.Spread.PrintInfo printset = new FarPoint.Win.Spread.PrintInfo(); FarPoint.Win.Spread.SmartPrintRulesCollection prules = new FarPoint.Win.Spread.SmartPrintRulesCollection(); // ... use best fit of columns and rows printset.BestFitCols = true; printset.BestFitRows = true; // ... or check by page size printset.SmartPrintPagesTall = 1; printset.SmartPrintPagesWide = 1; // ... or use the rules defined prules.Add(new FarPoint.Win.Spread.BestFitColumnRule(FarPoint.Win.Spread.ResetOption.None)); prules.Add(new FarPoint.Win.Spread.LandscapeRule(FarPoint.Win.Spread.ResetOption.Current)); prules.Add(new FarPoint.Win.Spread.ScaleRule(FarPoint.Win.Spread.ResetOption.None, 1, 0.6, 0.1)); printset.SmartPrintRules = prules; printset.UseSmartPrint = true; // Assign the printer settings to the sheet and print it fpSpread1.Sheets[0].PrintInfo = printset; fpSpread1.PrintSheet(0); | |
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' Typically you would use one type of optimization; they are all shown here for illustration only ' Define the printer settings for optimization Dim printset As New FarPoint.Win.Spread.PrintInfo() Dim prules As New FarPoint.Win.Spread.SmartPrintRulesCollection ' ... use best fit of columns and rows printset.BestFitCols = True printset.BestFitRows = True ' ... or check by page size printset.SmartPrintPagesTall = 1 printset.SmartPrintPagesWide = 1 ' ... or use the rules defined prules.Add(New FarPoint.Win.Spread.BestFitColumnRule(FarPoint.Win.Spread.ResetOption.None)) prules.Add(New FarPoint.Win.Spread.LandscapeRule(FarPoint.Win.Spread.ResetOption.Current)) prules.Add(New FarPoint.Win.Spread.ScaleRule(FarPoint.Win.Spread.ResetOption.None, 1, 0.6, 0.1)) printset.SmartPrintRules = prules printset.UseSmartPrint = True ' Assign the printer settings to the sheet and print it FpSpread1.Sheets(0).PrintInfo = printset FpSpread1.PrintSheet(0) | |
Requirements
Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2