VSPrinter Property Groups

The VSPrinter control has a rich set of properties, methods, and events. You do not have to know all of them in order to use the control effectively.

The reference below shows the most important properties, methods, and events, grouped by type of usage. Some elements appear in more than one group. For details on specific properties, events, or methods, refer to the reference part of this document.

User Interface Properties:
- Control Appearance
  
  Appearance, BackColor, BorderStyle, EmptyColor, NavBar,
  
  NavBarColor.
- Abort Dialog(displayed while printing a document)
  
  AbortWindow, AbortWindowPos, Error, AbortCaption, AbortTextButton,
  
  AbortTextDevice, AbortTextPage.
- Previewing
  
  Preview, PreviewPage, PreviewPages, ShowGuides, Navigation,
  
  Zoom, ZoomMode, ZoomMax, ZoomMin, ZoomStep,
  
  ProportionalBars, Track, ScrollLeft,
  
  ScrollTop, LargeChangeHorz, LargeChangeVert,
  
  SmallChangeHorz, SmallChangeVert, ReadyState.
Device Control Properties:
- Device Selection
  
  Preview, OutputFileName, ExportFile, ExportFormat, Device, Devices,
  
  NDevices, DefaultDevice, Driver.
- Device Driver Settings
  
  PhysicalPage, Collate, ColorMode, Copies, DPI, Duplex, Orientation, PaperBin,
  
  PaperBins, PaperSize, PaperSizes, PaperWidth, PaperHeight, PrintQuality,
  
  ResetDC, ScaleOutput, TrueType, ReadyState.
Document Layout Properties:
- Page Size
  
  Orientation, PhysicalPage, PageHeight, PageWidth.
- Page Layout
  
  MarginLeft, MarginTop, MarginRight, MarginBottom, GetMargins, Columns,
  
  ColumnSpacing, PageBorder.
- Headers and Footers
  
  Header, Footer, HdrColor, HdrFont, MarginHeader, MarginFooter, AfterFooter,
  
  AfterHeader, BeforeHeader, BeforeFooter.
Output Generation:
- Formatting
  
  CurrentX, CurrentY, GetMargins, PageHeight, PageWidth,
  
  IndentFirst, IndentLeft, IndentRight, IndentTab, LineSpacing,
  
  SpaceBefore, SpaceAfter, Font, TextColor, TextAlign,
  
  TextAngle, AutoRTF, Styles.
- Text
  
  Paragraph, Text, TextBox, TextRTF, ExportRaw, CurrentColumn,
  
  CurrentLine, CurrentPage.
- Tables
  
  Table, AddTable, AddTableArray, StartTable, EndTable, TableCell, TableBorder,
  
  TablePen, TablePenTB, TablePenLR, BeforeTableCell, AfterTableCell.
- Graphics
  
  BrushColor, BrushStyle, PenColor,
  
  PenStyle, PenWidth, DrawCircle,
  
  DrawEllipse, DrawLine, DrawRectangle,
  
  Polygon, Polyline, Draw, X1,
  
  Y1, X2, Y2.
- Pictures
  
  DrawPicture, RenderControl, PalettePicture, Picture,
  
  X1, Y1, X2, Y2.
- Overlays
  
  StartOverlay, EndOverlay.
- Active Contents
  
  ClientToPage, PageToClient, FindText, RetrieveText,
  
  ScrollIntoView, StartTag, EndTag, FindTag, RetrieveTag.
- Measuring
  
  GetMargins, PageHeight, PageWidth, CalcParagraph,
  
  CalcText, CalcTextRTF, CalcTable, CalcPicture, Measure, TextHei, TextWid,
  
  TextHeight, TextWidth, TwipsPerPixelX, TwipsPerPixelY,
  
  Measuring.
Document Management Properties:
- Document Management and Information
  
  StartDoc, EndDoc, KillDoc, NewPage, NewColumn, NewLine, EndPage,
  
  PrintDoc, PrintFile, PageCount, DocName, Error, ReadyState,
  
  ReadyStateChange.
- Disk Operations
  
  Archive, ArchiveInfo, LoadDoc, LoadingDoc, SaveDoc,
  
  SavingDoc.
Windows API Support:

hWnd, hDC.