Print html document from Windows Service without print dialog

Question

I am using a windows service and i want to print a .html page when the service will start. I am using this code and it\'s printing well. But a print dialog box come, how do

Answer 1

You can use the PrintDocument class in the System.Drawing.Printing namespace to give you more control over the printing, see here for more info.

For example you can do the following:

using (PrintDocument doc = new PrintDocument())
{
    doc.PrintPage += this.Doc_PrintPage;
    doc.DefaultPageSettings.Landscape = true;
    doc.DocumentName = fileNameOfYourDocument;
    doc.Print();
}

Then a function is raised for each page to be printed and you are given a Graphics area to draw to

private void Doc_PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs ev)
{
    ....
    ev.Graphics.DrawImage(image, x, y, newWidth, newHeight);
}

This does require you handle the actual drawing on the text/image to the page, see here for more info.