This event fires once for each FrameworkElement rendered after calls to the DrawElement(FrameworkElement, Rect, Rect) method. The event allows you to override the built-in rendering behavior and to render custom content for specific elements.

If you handle this event, then remember to set the Handled property to true so the control will not render the element over your custom content.

The example below shows how you can use the DrawingElement event to provide custom rendering for elements of type 'RichTextBox'. The code checks the type of element being rendered. If the element is a 'RichTextBox', the code creates a WriteableBitmap to represent the object, then renders the image into the PDF document.

This example is quite general. You can use it to render any elements that do not expose their child elements as primitives such as TextBlock, Border, Rectangle, etc.

The drawback associated with rendering elements as images is that the output will contain raster images, which can be quite large and may look rough when you zoom in on the PDF.

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// create C1PdfDocument var pdf = new C1PdfDocument(PaperKind.Letter); // use DrawingElement event to render RichTextBox elements pdf.DrawingElement += (s, e) => { if (e.Element is RichTextBox) { // get element image #if SILVERLIGHT var bmp = new WriteableBitmap(e.Element, e.DocumentTransform); #else // WPF var sz = e.Element.RenderSize; var rtBmp = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)sz.Width, (int)sz.Height, 96, 96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32); rtBmp.Render(e.Element); var bmp = new WriteableBitmap(rtBmp); #endif // render it into the document pdf.DrawImage(bmp, e.Bounds); // done rendering this element e.Handled = true; } }; // render LayoutRoot element into C1PdfDocument var rc = pdf.PageRectangle; rc.Inflate(-20, -20); pdf.DrawElement(LayoutRoot, rc, ContentAlignment.TopLeft, Stretch.None);