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Setting Margins, filling chart to page, and printing Landscape mode

created 14 years ago

I have a chart on one of the forms in my project. I have added a button to the form that allows the user to print the chart. However, the margins are too big, it is printing Portrait, and it is spanning two pages. I am currently simply using the Print method of the chart to print it.
How can I change things so that the chart prints:
  1) in Landscape mode
  2) to fill the whole page
  3) with specific margin values?
Please provide code samples in VB.

Comments (3)
Alessandro (DevExpress Support) 14 years ago

    Hello Bob,
    Thank you for contacting us. You should create a PrintableComponentLink instance and adjust its Landscape and Margins property values. Then print a ChartControl via this component. To control sizing mode adjust the ChartControl.OptionsPrint.SizeMode property value. Attached is a sample, demonstrating how this works.
    Thanks,
    Alessandro.

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    BobRoyAce 14 years ago

      How can I use the PrintableComponentLink.Print method such that it prints to the default printer? It seems to require that I specify a printer name, but I can't possibly know what printer names of users will be.

      Alessandro (DevExpress Support) 14 years ago

        Hello Bob,
        Please use the PrintingSystem.Print Method for this purpose:

        Visual Basic
        link.CreateDocument()  
link.PrintingSystem.Print()

        Attached is an updated sample.
        Thanks,
        Alessandro.

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