Printing Reports
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Please note that the print option is available only for reports, and not for dashboards.
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The HTML5 Viewer component provides several options for printing a report. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.
Print to PDF
Printing will be done by exporting the report to PDF. The advantages are greater accuracy of positioning and printing of the report elements compared to other printing options. Among the drawbacks is the mandatory presence of a plug-in installed in a web browser for viewing PDF files (modern browsers have embedded PDF viewer and printer).
Print with Preview
The report will be printed in a separate pop-up browser window in HTML. The report can be previewed and then sent to the printer or copied to another location as text or HTML code. Advantages - cross-browser compatibility when printing, no need to install special plug-ins. The disadvantage is the relatively low accuracy of the position of the report elements due to the peculiarities of the implementation of HTML formatting.
Print without Preview
The report will be printed directly to the printer without preview. After selecting this menu item, the system print dialog is displayed. Since printing in this mode is carried out in the HTML format, the print quality is similar to printing a report with a preview.
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When printing to the HTML format, you should check the compliance of report page settings and printer parameters (paper size, orientation, margins, indents) and check your browser print settings, such as margins, headers, footers watermarks printing, color printing.
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The print function does not require additional settings for the viewer. Before printing a report, you can define a special PrintReport action if you need to perform any actions.
Index.cshtml |
... @Html.Stimulsoft().StiMvcViewer("MvcViewer1", new StiMvcViewerOptions() { Actions = { PrintReport = "PrintReport" } }) ... |
HomeController.cs |
... public ActionResult PrintReport() { // Some code before print // ...
return StiMvcViewer.PrintReportResult(); } ... |
Print setup
If you choose to print a report in the viewer panel, a menu with printing options is displayed. The HTML5 Viewer component is able to force the required printing mode. To do this, set the PrintDestination property to one of the following values of the StiPrintDestination enumeration.
The HTML5 Viewer component can completely disable report printing. To do this, set the value of the ShowPrintButton property to false.
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