Printing forms in C#

[Nathan4102]

I've learned C#.net for my co-op, but I'm having a bit of trouble printing quality forms. I tried taking a screen cap of the form, then printing the .bmp, but that resulted in really bad quality. I've heard there's a way to draw a form on a printDocument thingy, and then print straight from that, but I haven't been able to find any good information on this. My form has labels, text boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, and a picture frame.

Does anyone know how I can print my forms clearly?

Thanks,
Nathan

[rdrake]

Your computer screen is probably set to 96 DPI, while a low-quality printer will give you at least 300 DPI. This is why the image looks like garbage once printed.

I found some promising information on Google. It looks like you'll basically have some way of triggering a print event, copy the contents of the form.

C#:

Bitmap memoryImage; private void CaptureScreen() {     Graphics myGraphics = this.CreateGraphics();     Size s = this.Size;     memoryImage = new Bitmap(s.Width, s.Height, myGraphics);     Graphics memoryGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(memoryImage);     memoryGraphics.CopyFromScreen(this.Location.X, this.Location.Y, 0, 0, s); }

You then draw the bitmap to the print canvas and it prints.

C#:

private void printDocument1_PrintPage(System.Object sender,         System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e) {     e.Graphics.DrawImage(memoryImage, 0, 0); }

You can also let the user change settings, display a print preview, etc. The entire namespace is full of functionality.

[Nathan4102]

This is the way I already tried, it printed, but with terrible quality.

[Nathan4102]

Solved, I figure out how to draw to a PrintDocument. Its freakishly tedious though, I've been going for hours now and I'm still not finished my one page form.