I have a WPF application where I use a document viewer. I also start printing programmatically with documentviewer.Print(); However, when that is pressed it brings up the screen with the Windows printers and makes the user have to click "OK" again on that screen to start. Is there a way to avoid the confirmation and make documentviewer.Print(); immediately start the print job on the default Windows printer?
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All you need is the default print queue, which you can get via
var pq = LocalPrintServer.GetDefaultPrintQueue()
From this, you can create an XpsDocumentWriter:
var writer = PrintQueue.CreateXpsDocumentWriter(pq);
Now, you can get the DocumentPaginator from your DocumentViewer via the Document property, which returns an IDocumentPaginatorSource that has a DocumentPaginator property:
var paginator = documentviewer.Document.DocumentPaginator;
and you can send that right to the XpsDocumentWriter's Write method:
writer.Write(paginator);
Simple, isn't it?
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WOW! Yes, it really is simple, much less so than I had anticipated. Thank you very much. – Unknown Coder Apr 18 '11 at 15:50
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@JimBeam: (I was being sarcastic about the "simple" bit) – Apr 18 '11 at 15:51