PrintOptions Class

Namespace:
GemBox.Spreadsheet
Assembly:
GemBox.Spreadsheet.dll

Specifies information about how a spreadsheet is printed.

public sealed class PrintOptions
Public NotInheritable Class PrintOptions
Inheritance:
PrintOptions

Constructors

PrintOptions()

Initializes a new instance of the PrintOptions class.

public PrintOptions()
Public Sub New

PrintOptions(MemoryStream)

Initializes a new instance of the PrintOptions class by using an XML stream (that contains a PrintTicket document) that complies with the XML Print Schema.

public PrintOptions(MemoryStream xmlStream)
Public Sub New(xmlStream As MemoryStream)
Parameters
xmlStream
MemoryStream

An XML stream that describes a print job and conforms to the Print Schema.

Exceptions
ArgumentNullException

xmlStream is null.

See Also

Properties

CopyCount

Gets or sets the number of copies of the document to print.

public int CopyCount { get; set; }
Public Property CopyCount As Integer
Property Value
Int32

DocumentName

Gets or sets the name of the printed document in the print queue.

Default value is 'Spreadsheet'.

public string DocumentName { get; set; }
Public Property DocumentName As String
Property Value
String

The name of the printed document in the print queue.

FromPage

Gets or sets the page index of the first page to print.

public int FromPage { get; set; }
Public Property FromPage As Integer
Property Value
Int32
Remarks

Spreadsheet pages are zero-indexed meaning that first page in the spreadsheet has index 0 (zero).

MetafileScaleFactor

Gets or sets the scaling factor for rendering metafile (WMF and EMF) images. Greater scaling factor improves quality but also increases file size. Default value is 1.

public double MetafileScaleFactor { get; set; }
Public Property MetafileScaleFactor As Double
Property Value
Double

The metafile scale factor for rendering metafile (WMF and EMF) images.

Remarks

Windows Metafile Format (WMF) and Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) are vector image formats which contain a series of graphics drawing commands usually executed in Windows GDI layer.

Metafile drawing commands could also be executed in PDF (or XPS) file which is also vector format, but for that Metafile drawing commands would have to be converted to PDF drawing commands.

GemBox.Document currently doesn't perform this conversion of drawing commands, instead it uses Windows GDI to execute Metafile drawing commands into bitmap which is then encoded to PNG format and embedded into PDF file.

MetafileScaleFactor specifies the size of the bitmap surface, based from the original Metafile surface size, into which Metafile should be drawn / rasterized.

PDF viewer will still scale the bitmap to the original Metafile size, but if the page is zoomed or viewed on a larger surface, quality of the image will be better since it contains more pixels / dots which will become visible while PDF viewer scales down the image.

MetafileScaleFactor increases the quality of the Metafile image in PDF file, but it also increases the size of the PDF file because greater MetafileScaleFactor means greater bitmap surface and more space to store bitmap pixel / color data. PNG encoding / compression helps in reducing the space requirement and for complex Metafiles (with a lot of drawing instructions), MetafileScaleFactor of 5 or even greater, might not incur any space overhead relative to the original (complex) Metafile.

Default value for MetafileScaleFactor is 1.

PagesPerSheet

Gets or sets the number of pages that print on each printed side of a sheet of paper.

public int PagesPerSheet { get; set; }
Public Property PagesPerSheet As Integer
Property Value
Int32
Remarks

Only a limited range of 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 or 16 pages per sheet side are supported.

SelectionType

Gets or sets a value indicating whether to save the whole ExcelFile or just ActiveWorksheet.

public SelectionType SelectionType { get; set; }
Public Property SelectionType As SelectionType
Property Value
SelectionType

ToPage

Gets or sets the index of the last page to print.

public int ToPage { get; set; }
Public Property ToPage As Integer
Property Value
Int32
Remarks

Use MaxValue value to print to the last page.

Examples