Enhanced Print Preview Capabilities

The XtraPrinting Library provides a Print Preview for publishing reports in the Windows Forms application. Print Preview provides instruments for document navigation, zooming and scaling. In Print Preview, you can modify a document's print settings, specify its watermark settings, send it to a printer or export it to one of the available formats. This topic describes these and other Print Preview features in detail.

Preview Form and Preview Control

To preview a report with XtraPrinting you only need to write a single line of code that invokes the Print Preview window for the specified document. You can also embed Print Preview into a custom form.

Ribbon Preview Form

In addition to a standard Print Preview form (equipped with a menu, toolbar and status bar), the XtraPrinting Library provides a Ribbon Print Preview with a more appealing user interface, similar to the one introduced by Microsoft for Word and Excel in 2007.

Customizable Preview

You have the total control over the Print Preview form's look-and-feel, as well as you can completely customize it (e.g., hide some buttons from its toolbar or add your own commands to it).

Rich Set of Supported Skins

As with all other DevExpress products, XtraPrinting fully supports standard DevExpress skins and provides the capability to create your own custom skins.

Document Scaling and Zooming

Print Preview provides the built-in capability to scale and zoom documents, using the corresponding toolbar buttons.

Page Setup Dialog

Print Preview provides the Page Setup dialog with a set of options to specify a printer, select which pages to print and so on.

Facing and Continuous Page Layout

A document can be previewed in two modes - facing and continuous. When the Facing layout is active, pages are arranged side-by-side. In a Continuous mode, pages are arranged as a continuous vertical column.

Multiple Pages Layout

A fixed number of document pages can be shown in Print Preview regardless of the window size.

Customizable Margins in Preview

It is possible to adjust a document's page margins directly in Print Preview.

Watermark and Background Color

You can specify a color to fill pages, as well as add text or an image watermark to a document's pages.