add save button in printpreviewdialog

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Hi I have PrintPreviewDialog1 in my windows application. This print preview dialog will be populated from the main form. So the default control of the PrintPreviewDialog has print ,zoom etc.
My question: How do I edit this control programaticaly to add save button ? I am tring to save the previewed document as PDF.

Posted 28-Feb-11 1:06am

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Albin Abel · Answer 1 · 2011-02-28T03:45:00

Hi create a custom preview control like this..

the class document should have a reference to using System.Windows.Forms;

C#

class CustomPrintPreviewDialog : System.Windows.Forms.PrintPreviewDialog
{
    public CustomPrintPreviewDialog()
        : base()

    {
        if(this.Controls.ContainsKey("toolstrip1"))
        {

            ToolStrip tStrip1 = (ToolStrip)this.Controls["toolstrip1"];
            ToolStripButton button1 = new ToolStripButton();
            button1.Text = "Save";
            button1.Click += new EventHandler(SaveDocument);
            button1.Visible = true;
            tStrip1.Items.Add(button1);
        }
    }

    protected void SaveDocument(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // code for save the document
        MessageBox.Show("OK");
    }
}

Implement your save logic in the save document function.

Then you can instantiate this control as

<br />
<br />
            CustomPrintPreviewDialog dialog1 = new CustomPrintPreviewDialog();<br />
            dialog1.Show();<br />

and set whaterver properties or call methods as normal print preview dialog.

But basically save to PDF is just use the pdf printer. This control already have a print button. As you asked I gave given this way. Upto you how you want to implement the save function.