found this function online, which works great... except I can't figure out how to default it to print in landscape.
private void PrintClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
PrintDialog dialog = new PrintDialog();
if (dialog.ShowDialog() == true)
{ dialog.PrintVisual(_PrintCanvas, "My Canvas"); }
}
How does one actually set the default to print my wpf content to landscape mode?
private void PrintClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
PrintDialog dialog = new PrintDialog();
if (dialog.ShowDialog() == true)
{
==> printDialog.PrintTicket.PageOrientation = PageOrientation.Landscape;
dialog.PrintVisual(_PrintCanvas, "My Canvas");
}
}
Original Answer
This has already been answered:
Setting PageOrientation for the Wpf DocumentViewer PrintDialog
End Original Answer
Edit:
It appears there is a problem with the PrintTicket and printing visuals, check out:
Same question on MSDN
The original poster on the MSDN forum posted on the last post that the work around they used was to basically capture the visual and convert to xps document for printing, this will allow the usage of PrintTicket to set the orientation of the printed document.
private void PrintClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
PrintDialog dialog = new PrintDialog();
if (dialog.ShowDialog() == true)
{
dialog.PrintTicket.PageOrientation=System.Printing.PageOrientation.Landscape;
dialog.PrintVisual(this, "First LandScape");
}
}
You need to add a reference to ReachFramework.dll and System.Printing.dll each.