Form Print Component

Article describing how it works on Codeproject

The attached component is designed to be dropped on a windows form and it extends the controls on that form (i.e. it provides a set of new properties for the control in a manner similar to the way the ErrorProvidor and HelpProvider components do).
These properties allow you to specify how (and if) you want the control to be printed and then you can call the Print() or PrintPreview() methoids and it will print your form using these properties to do the layout.

The component provides the following extended properties to all the controls on the form on which the component is sited:

• BackColour - The colour to fill the bounding rectangle of the control before printing it. If this is transparent then the bounding rectangle will not obscure items printed before it
• BoundingRectangle - Where on the page to print the component
• ForeColour - The forewground colour to use to print the control (this has no effect if the print mode is not PrintAsText)
• HorizontalAlignment, VerticalAlignment - How to align the control's text relative to its bounding rectangle for printing
• Print - True if it should be printed on the page, false if not
• PrintFont - The font to use to print the controls text if the print method is PrintAsText
• PrintMethod - How to print the control
• TopBorder, BottomBorder, LeftBorder, RightBorder - Pens to use to draw a border around the bounding rectangle on the printed document.
• Trimming which controls how words wrap within their bounding rectangle
• PropertyToPrint to allow you to specify which property of the control you want to print

For rich text box controls there is also the property RichTextBoxPrintMethod whioch specifies whether to print the textbox as plain text or using the rich text box API (for what-you-see-is-what-you-get printing)