PrintingSystemBase.LoadDocument(String) Method

Loads a document from a file in a native XML format (PRNX).

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraPrinting

Assembly: DevExpress.Printing.v24.2.Core.dll

Declaration

C#

public void LoadDocument(
    string filePath
)

VB.NET

Public Sub LoadDocument(
    filePath As String
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
filePath	String	A String, which specifies the file name (including the full path) of the PRNX file to be loaded.

Remarks

Use the PrintingSystemBase.SaveDocument and LoadDocument methods to save a printing system‘s document (all its pages and bricks) to a PRNX file, and then load it into another printing system instance. This may be required, for example, when it’s necessary to pass a generated report to another machine that doesn’t have access to the same data as the machine that generated the report.

Prior to saving a printing system document, it must be created by calling the LinkBase.CreateDocument method.

The printing system’s PrintingSystemBase.ExportOptions provide the ExportOptions.NativeFormat property, which specifies how a document should be saved to a PRNX file. For example, to reduce the size of the resulting PRNX file, set the NativeFormatOptions.Compressed property to true.

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

reporting-wpf-load-prnx-document/CS/WpfApplication1/MainWindow.xaml.cs#L27

SimpleLink sl = new SimpleLink();
sl.PrintingSystem.LoadDocument("CustomerOrder.prnx");
documentPreview1.Model = new LinkPreviewModel(sl);

VB.NET

reporting-wpf-load-prnx-document/VB/WpfApplication1/MainWindow.xaml.vb#L19

Dim sl As SimpleLink = New SimpleLink()
sl.PrintingSystem.LoadDocument("CustomerOrder.prnx")
Me.documentPreview1.Model = New LinkPreviewModel(sl)