I made a windows service that's runs in background service and listening for web app to order to print. the web app send a pdf file and width and height of the printer paper with count of copies I wrote the code this way
convert pdf to image
public Image ConverPdfToImage(IFormFile pdfFile)
{
if (pdfFile == null || pdfFile.Length==0)
{
return null;
}
var documemt = new Spire.Pdf.PdfDocument();
documemt.LoadFromStream(pdfFile.OpenReadStream());
Image image = documemt.SaveAsImage(0,PdfImageType.Bitmap);
return image;
}
then the event handler
private void PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs ev,Image img)
{
Rectangle pageBounds = ev.PageBounds;
int x = pageBounds.Left - (int) ev.PageSettings.HardMarginX;
int y = pageBounds.Top - (int) ev.PageSettings.HardMarginY;
int width = pageBounds.Width;
int height = pageBounds.Height;
ev.Graphics.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
ev.Graphics.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
ev.Graphics.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality;
ev.Graphics.PixelOffsetMode = PixelOffsetMode.HighQuality;
local = new Rectangle(x, y, width, height);
ev.Graphics.FillRectangle(Brushes.Transparent, local);
ev.Graphics.DrawImage(img, local);
}
and the final function that prints
PrintDocument printDocument = new PrintDocument();
printDocument.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = form.Printer;
printDocument.DefaultPageSettings.Landscape = form.Landscape;
printDocument.DefaultPageSettings.PrinterSettings.Copies = form.Count;
printDocument.DefaultPageSettings.PaperSize =GetPaperSize(form.Width, form.Height);
printDocument.DefaultPageSettings.Margins = new Margins(0, 0, 0, 0);
Image img = ConverPdfToImage(form.PrintFile);
printDocument.PrintPage += (sender, args) => this.PrintPage(sender,args,img);
printDocument.Print();
the printDocument is from System.Drawing
It makes correct size in printer printer are for lables and they have label papers with custom size
but the printed paper is blur and hard to read some of it is so messed up and dirty
glad to help me make print sharp and good quality