Printing Image from Silverlight

Question

I'm trying to print a Image in Landscape mode in Silverlight .

I found a great example here . Where most of the code comes from. The code worked perfectly as expected. When I changed the Line to an Image it failed.

Code

       Canvas OuterCanvas = new Canvas();


       /* a container for everything that will print */

       Border OuterBorder = new Border()
       {

           BorderThickness = new Thickness(3),

           BorderBrush = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Red),

           Margin = new Thickness(10)

       };

       double Width = e.PrintableArea.Width - OuterBorder.Margin.Left - OuterBorder.Margin.Right;

       double Height = e.PrintableArea.Height - OuterBorder.Margin.Top - OuterBorder.Margin.Bottom;


       /* NOTE: We're trying to force landscape, so swop the width and height */

       OuterBorder.Width = Height;

       OuterBorder.Height = Width;


       /* on portrait, this line goes down (leave the printer settings, we're trying to force landscape) */

       Line Line = new Line()
       {

           X1 = OuterBorder.Width / 2,

           Y1 = 0,

           X2 = OuterBorder.Width / 2,

           Y2 = OuterBorder.Height,

           Stroke = new SolidColorBrush(Colors.Blue),

           StrokeThickness = 3

       };


       //
       // Here is where I changed the Line to an Image
       //
       OuterBorder.Child = imageElementInXaml; //Line;

       OuterCanvas.Children.Add(OuterBorder);


       /* rotate 90 degrees, and move into place */

       var transformGroup = new TransformGroup();

       transformGroup.Children.Add(new RotateTransform() { Angle = 90 });

       transformGroup.Children.Add(new TranslateTransform() { X = e.PrintableArea.Width });

       OuterBorder.RenderTransform = transformGroup;

       e.PageVisual = OuterCanvas;

       e.HasMorePages = false;

I know that a Border can only contain 1 element in which I have done so, and when I printed the image on its own without trying to make it landscape this worked too. So why wont it work when I simply replace the Line with the image Element

Answer 1

So since posting this I found some code (cant remember where now) that has helped me get the printing working. Its not as clean as I would have liked but it works.

    void pd_PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e)
    {

        Image image = new Image();

        image.Source = imgPlayer.Source;


        //This is important
        image.Stretch = Stretch.Uniform;


        // Find the full size of the page
        Size pageSize =  new Size(e.PrintableArea.Width  + e.PageMargins.Left + e.PageMargins.Right, e.PrintableArea.Height + e.PageMargins.Top + e.PageMargins.Bottom);

        var MARGIN= 10;

        // Get additional margins to bring the total to MARGIN (= 96)
        Thickness additionalMargin = new Thickness
        {
            Left = Math.Max(0, MARGIN - e.PageMargins.Left),
            Top = Math.Max(0, MARGIN - e.PageMargins.Top),
            Right = Math.Max(0, MARGIN - e.PageMargins.Right),
            Bottom = Math.Max(0, MARGIN - e.PageMargins.Bottom)
        };


        // Find the area for display purposes
        Size displayArea = new Size(e.PrintableArea.Width - additionalMargin.Left - additionalMargin.Right,  e.PrintableArea.Height  - additionalMargin.Top - additionalMargin.Bottom);

        bool pageIsLandscape = displayArea.Width > displayArea.Height;
        bool imageIsLandscape = image.ActualWidth > image.ActualHeight;

        double displayAspectRatio = displayArea.Width / displayArea.Height;
        double imageAspectRatio = (double)image.ActualWidth / image.ActualHeight;

        double scaleX = Math.Min(1, imageAspectRatio / displayAspectRatio);
        double scaleY = Math.Min(1, displayAspectRatio / imageAspectRatio);



        // Calculate the transform matrix
        MatrixTransform transform = new MatrixTransform();

        if (pageIsLandscape == imageIsLandscape)
        {
        // Pure scaling
            transform.Matrix = new Matrix(scaleX, 0, 0, scaleY, 0, 0);
        }
        else
        {

            // Scaling with rotation
            scaleX *= pageIsLandscape ? displayAspectRatio : 1 /   displayAspectRatio;
            scaleY *= pageIsLandscape ? displayAspectRatio : 1 /   displayAspectRatio;

            transform.Matrix = new Matrix(0, scaleX, -scaleY, 0, 0, 0);
        }

        Image image2 = new Image
        {
            Source = image.Source,
            Stretch = Stretch.Fill,
            Width = displayArea.Width,
            Height = displayArea.Height,
            RenderTransform = transform,
            RenderTransformOrigin = new Point(0.5, 0.5),
            HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center,
            VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Center,
            Margin = additionalMargin,
        };

        Border border = new Border
        {
            Child = image,
        };

        e.PageVisual = border;
    }