Create a pdf of scrollable winform

Question

I had a situation like creating a pdf file from the winform, which have to make entire winform as a pdf, most of the searching in the google resulted in capturing the screen and making the pdf of that, but the problem is that it will not be useful if the form is lengthy, and it have scroll bars.

I referred to these links which are not much useful

convert windows form to pdf file

Save WinForm to PDF & print multipage WinForm

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Certainly you can insert a multi-line textbox into PDF (with I think no more than approx 65,000 chars). There are many software solutions to create PDF Forms and you can set the text of that form field to your scrollable form. — Kevin Brown, Aug 21 '13 at 05:40
I doesn't mean that lengthy form is due to the multiline textbox it is because of the more content controls @KevinBrown — Raghurocks, Aug 21 '13 at 05:56
Maybe: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2ad34554-e989-4ffa-8e1f-ccea1f00c99d/how-to-print-scrollable-textbox — rheitzman, Aug 21 '13 at 14:25

Vasiliy · Answer 1 · 2013-08-21T06:48:23.430

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Try this

    var form = new Form1();
    var bitmap = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(form.Width,form.Height);
    form.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, form.Bounds);
    bitmap.Save("file.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);
    bitmap.Dispose();

edited Aug 21 '13 at 06:48

answered Aug 21 '13 at 05:42

Vasiliy

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here panel in the sense our main panel? – Raghurocks Aug 21 '13 at 05:50
i've modified the answer. Form is the ancestor of Control. You can Draw the hole form to Bitmap. – Vasiliy Aug 21 '13 at 05:52
no it is not working as my form is having the scrollbar as mentioned in the question it is truncating some part of the above part of the form... and making an image – Raghurocks Aug 21 '13 at 07:15
try capture the root control of the form – Vasiliy Aug 21 '13 at 07:17
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/35890/discussion-between-raghurocks-and-vasiliy) – Raghurocks Aug 21 '13 at 07:26

Create a pdf of scrollable winform

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