How to print the scrollable form in VB.NET

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I have lots of labels in a form and it needs to scrolled. I have set its AutoScroll property to True. Now i am trying to print this form but only the visible part of the form is printed not the whole form. I used Visual Basic PowerPacks and set the PrintAction property to PrintToPrinter.

What I have tried:

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PrintForm1.Print(Me, PowerPacks.Printing.PrintForm.PrintOption.Scrollable)

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PrintForm1.Print(Me, PowerPacks.Printing.PrintForm.PrintOption.FullWindow)

Posted 23-May-16 20:48pm

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Updated 23-May-16 21:02pm

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2016-05-23T21:02:00

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Don't use Printform - it can only print the visible part.
Instead, use a PrintDocument Class (System.Drawing.Printing)[^] and manually locate the label content onto the output. It allows you to specify everything about the print: font, size, number of pages you print it on, and so forth - so it's a lot more flexible, if more work that just dumping the form to the printer.
As usual, the link includes sample code.

Posted 23-May-16 21:02pm

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Member 12178151 24-May-16 4:41am

Thanks for the reply. Can you please provide some snippet how to use PrintDocument Class. As the example you provided is for the txt file. I need to print the whole form with the labels.

OriginalGriff 24-May-16 4:46am

:sigh:
And what does a label contain?
Text.
So replace the text file with the label contents, and print them in the right place on the page...
I'm not here to do your work for you! :laugh: