This walkthrough illustrates how to make simple modifications to the page orientation of your report for printing.

This walkthrough is split up into the following activities:

• Accessing the printer settings dialog
• Changing the page orientation of your report for printing
• Using code to change the page orientation for printing

Accessing the printer settings dialog

To access the printer settings dialog

1. Open an existing ActiveReport.
2. Click on any section of the report to select it.
3. From the Report menu, select Settings.

   

4. Select the Printer Settings tab.

Changing the page orientation of your report for printing

To change the page orientation of your report for printing

1. On the Printer Settings tab, in the orientation box, select either portrait or landscape.

   

2. Click OK to return to the report.

Page orientation can only be modified before the report runs. Otherwise, changes made to the page orientation will not be reflected when printed.

Using code to change the page orientation

To write the code in Visual Basic or C#

• Double-click in the gray section underneath the report to create an event-handling method for the report's ReportStart event. Add code to the handler to:
  • Change the page orientation of the report for printing

  The following example shows what the code for the method looks like for changing the page orientation to landscape.

  'Visual Basic
  Private Sub rptPrint_ReportStart(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
     Handles MyBase.ReportStart
     Me.PageSettings.Orientation = PageOrientation.Landscape
  End Sub
  
  //C#
  private void rptPrint_ReportStart(object sender, System.EventArgs eArgs)
  {
      this.PageSettings.Orientation = DataDynamics.ActiveReports.Document
     .PageOrientation.Landscape;
  }

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