Silent print HTML file in C # using WPF
EDIT: Completely rewrote the question and added a reward.
Based on many stackoverflow guides and questions, I can now:
- Print multiple pages together as one document.
- Print current content.
- Align the content on the page.
- Print the documents you want.
The solution requires the HTML document to have white space at the bottom and an html style tag {overflow: hidden; } - to hide the scrollbars and allow scrolling for pagination, but I can accept that.
The only remaining problem is that WPF is not displaying parts of the web browser that are off-screen.
This means that if I tilt my computer screen I can print correctly, but if I do not document this bottom,
I tried rendering to a bitmap but when I print the resulting image like my visual the pages are empty.
If you know how to get WPF to fully render, or how to render a bitmap correctly, please help me.
XAML print window: (WPF print only works on UI thread, otherwise nothing is displayed ...)
<Window x:Class="CardLoader2000.PrintWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="PrintWindow" Height="1139" Width="820">
<Grid x:Name="grid">
<!--The alignment and size of the webbrowser is reflected in the print. If larger than document
it will be cut. The width here corresponds to A4 paper width with a little margin-->
<WebBrowser x:Name="webBrowser" Height="1089" Width="770" VerticalAlignment="Top" Margin="0,10,0,0"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
Print window with code:
public partial class PrintWindow : Window
{
public PrintWindow(string path)
{
InitializeComponent();
FileStream fs = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
webBrowser.NavigateToStream(fs);
ContentRendered += OnContentRendered;
}
private void OnContentRendered(object sender, EventArgs eventArgs)
{
PrintDialog pd = new PrintDialog
{
PrintTicket = new PrintTicket
{
Duplexing = Duplexing.TwoSidedLongEdge,
OutputColor = OutputColor.Monochrome,
PageOrientation = PageOrientation.Portrait,
PageMediaSize = new PageMediaSize(794, 1122),
InputBin = InputBin.AutoSelect
}
};
//Ok, final TODO: Page only renders what is on the PC screen...
WebPaginator paginator = new WebPaginator(webBrowser, 1089, 1122, 794);
pd.PrintDocument(paginator, "CustomerLetter");
Close();
}
}
Custom pointer:
public class WebPaginator : DocumentPaginator
{
private readonly WebBrowser webBrowser;
private readonly int pageScroll;
private Size pageSize;
public WebPaginator(WebBrowser webBrowser, int pageScroll, double pageHeight, double pageWidth)
{
this.webBrowser = webBrowser;
this.pageScroll = pageScroll;
pageSize = new Size(pageWidth, pageHeight);
}
public override DocumentPage GetPage(int pageNumber)
{
HTMLDocument htmlDoc = webBrowser.Document as HTMLDocument;
if (htmlDoc != null) htmlDoc.parentWindow.scrollTo(0, pageScroll * pageNumber);
Rect area = new Rect(pageSize);
return new DocumentPage(webBrowser, pageSize, area, area);
}
public override bool IsPageCountValid
{
get { return true; }
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns one less than actual length.
/// Last page should be whitespace, used for scrolling.
/// </summary>
public override int PageCount
{
get
{
var doc = (IHTMLDocument2)webBrowser.Document;
var height = ((IHTMLElement2)doc.body).scrollHeight;
int tempVal = height*10/pageScroll;
tempVal = tempVal%10 == 0
? Math.Max(height/pageScroll, 1)
: height/pageScroll + 1;
return tempVal > 1 ? tempVal-1 : tempVal;
}
}
public override Size PageSize
{
get
{
return pageSize;
}
set
{
pageSize = value;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Can be null.
/// </summary>
public override IDocumentPaginatorSource Source
{
get
{
return null;
}
}
}
source to share
You can use IE's standard print function (via the ExecWB method ) like:
public partial class PrintWindow : Window
{
public PrintWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
webBrowser.Navigate("http://www.google.com");
}
// I have added a button to demonstrate
private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
// NOTE: this works only when the document as been loaded
IOleServiceProvider sp = webBrowser.Document as IOleServiceProvider;
if (sp != null)
{
Guid IID_IWebBrowserApp = new Guid("0002DF05-0000-0000-C000-000000000046");
Guid IID_IWebBrowser2 = new Guid("D30C1661-CDAF-11d0-8A3E-00C04FC9E26E");
const int OLECMDID_PRINT = 6;
const int OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER = 2;
dynamic wb; // will be of IWebBrowser2 type, but dynamic is cool
sp.QueryService(IID_IWebBrowserApp, IID_IWebBrowser2, out wb);
if (wb != null)
{
// note: this will send to the default printer, if any
wb.ExecWB(OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER, null, null);
}
}
}
[ComImport, Guid("6D5140C1-7436-11CE-8034-00AA006009FA"), InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown)]
private interface IOleServiceProvider
{
[PreserveSig]
int QueryService([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStruct)] Guid guidService, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStruct)] Guid riid, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.IDispatch)] out object ppvObject);
}
}
source to share