How to: Print a Document

• Apr 08, 2019

The RichEditDocumentServer component allows you to print the document with the default settings or specify printing options.

Call the RichEditDocumentServer.Print method to print a document to the default system printer, as shown in the code snippet below:

C#

server.LoadDocument("Grimm.docx");
server.Print();

VB.NET

server.LoadDocument("Grimm.docx")
server.Print()

Pass the PrinterSettings instance as the method’s printerSettings parameter to specify the printer settings (the page range, the number of copies, etc. ), as shown below:

Note

A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/how-to-print-from-the-richeditdocumentserver-t590908

XtraForm1.vb

Dim printerSettings As New PrinterSettings()

'Set the document pages to print:
printerSettings.FromPage = 2
printerSettings.ToPage = 3

'Specify the number of copies:
printerSettings.Copies = 2

'Print the document:
server.Print(printerSettings)

XtraForm1.cs

PrinterSettings printerSettings = new PrinterSettings();
//Set the document pages to print:
printerSettings.FromPage = 2;
printerSettings.ToPage = 3;

//Specify the number of copies:
printerSettings.Copies = 2;

//Print the document: 
server.Print(printerSettings);

Note

PrinterSettings properties, such as PageSettings.Margins or PageSettings.Landscape (accessed using the PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings property), do not affect a printed document’s layout. Change a document section’s settings (accessed using the Section.Page property) to modify the document page’s layout properties before printing.