Spread Windows Forms 8.0 Product Documentation
UseSmartPrint Property
Example 


Gets or sets whether the control optimizes the printing using rules.
Syntax
'Declaration
 
Public Property UseSmartPrint As Boolean
'Usage
 
Dim instance As PrintInfo
Dim value As Boolean
 
instance.UseSmartPrint = value
 
value = instance.UseSmartPrint
public bool UseSmartPrint {get; set;}

Property Value

Boolean: true to use the optimum printing rules; false to print normally
Remarks

Set this property to true to optimize printing, which might save time and paper.

By default, these optimum printing rules provide the following behavior:

If you want to change this behavior, you change the rules that govern the printing calculations by setting the SmartPrintRules property.

Set this property to true when you want to use the SmartPrintRules (ScaleRule or BestFitColRule or LandscapeRule). There are default rules so you do not have to set any of these to do a SmartPrint but definitely if you set some, you must set this property. You do NOT need this property to be true for these other printing optimizations: SmartPrintPagesTall and SmartPrintPagesWide, and BestFitCols and BestFitRows.

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);
' 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

See Also

Reference

PrintInfo Class
PrintInfo Members
SmartPrintRules Property

User-Task Documentation

Optimizing the Printing

 

 


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