c# webbrowser control printing

Question

I'm using the web browser control in an application to display a report. The report is just straight HTML text but is fairly wide. When I preview the print using the .ShowPrintPreviewDialog() I see that the report is truncated on the right hand side, even when switched to landscape mode.

Currently I am only calling the .ShowPrintPreviewDialog() method and then calling the .ShowPrintDialog() method to actually print the report.

My question is ... how do I get the report to print over multiple pages? I'm perfectly fine with spanning the report over X number of pages in landscape mode but I'm not sure what flag to set or how to set the control to actually split the report over multiple pages.

Answer 1

Why not let the webbrowser control handle the printing for you. I have successfully done this where a report data was in xml, and applied a xslt transformation to html and used the webbrowser control to display the report and let the user make the choice in printing it. Here is a link to CodeProject on this webbrowser wrapper . There is a method in there to do a print (which includes the print preview as rendered by the control itself).

Hope this helps, Best regards, Tom.