SmartPrintRules Property

Gets or sets the collection of rules to optimize the printing.

Syntax

Visual Basic
C#

'Declaration
 
Public Property SmartPrintRules As SmartPrintRulesCollection

'Usage
 
Dim instance As PrintInfo
Dim value As SmartPrintRulesCollection
 
instance.SmartPrintRules = value
 
value = instance.SmartPrintRules

public SmartPrintRulesCollection SmartPrintRules {get; set;}

Property Value

SmartPrintRulesCollection object containing the collection of optimum printing rules

Remarks

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.

// 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);

Visual Basic

' 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 2000 Professional (SP4), Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server (SP1), Windows 2008, Windows XP (SP2), Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8

Reference

PrintInfo Class
PrintInfo Members
BestFitColumnRule Class
LandscapeRule Class
ScaleRule Class
SmartPrintRuleCollection Class
SmartPrintRule Class

User-Task Documentation

Optimizing the Printing