PrintPRO enables you to create a document composed of images, text, and graphics, and print the document to a selected printer or print to file.
The process for composing and printing documents is as follows:
- Select a printer. PrintPRO automatically selects the system default printer but you can select any printer connected to your system. If you want to use the default printer, you can skip to step 2.
- Set Printer Properties. Printer properties include the paper size, print quality, orientation, etc. If you want to use the printers default properties, you can skip to step 3.
- Set the Use Image Color Management (ICM) as needed.
- When creating a PrintJob you can optionally specify the document name as a parameter of the PrintJob constructor. When the system spools your document for printing, the document name appears in the list of documents to be printed. The default document name is PrintPRO Document. If you want to use the default document name, skip to step 5.
- Start a document. PrintPRO's text, graphics and bitmap methods will automatically start a document if one has not been started.
- Place text, graphics and bitmaps on the document page. The NewPage Method lets you start a new page and the Page Property returns the current page number.
- Create, then print and/or display print preview page(s) if desired.
- Print the document. Use the Finish Method to send the document to the print spooler. If you want to stop printing the current document, use the PrintJob.Kill Method before you start a new document.
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