Print chart on a big page (A0, for example)

[Tim]

Hello everyone!

Silverlight 5 now supports vector printing but is it possible that it is still not possible to print big pages? I tried to print a small control to A0  (about 840 x 1190 mm) but it did'nt work. I tried the telerik printing demo ( http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#Chart/Silverlight/PrintAndExportWithRadDocument ) using this A0 page size but it didn't work. There is no exception - it just happens nothing!!! Can someone please shed some light on this? If it is really not possible - any workarounds? Thanks a lot for any kind of help!!!

All the best,Tim.

[Petar Marchev]

Hi Tim,
 
Unfortunately there is nothing we can do in this situation. The problem that you are experiencing is actually a known problem of the PrintDocument class. If the selected paper size is too large - this results in a silent fail.

Here you can read about the PrintDocument class. Note the last sentence, at the bottom of the page:

"After calling Print() on a PrintDocument object, if the paper size selected by the user is too large (A2 or larger 16.5 In.x23.4 In.), PrintDocument never fires BeginPrint, PrintPage, or EndPrint events, and no exception is thrown from the Print call. It just fails silently."
 
Regards,
Petar Marchev
the Telerik team

[Tim]

Hi Petar,

thanks for your reply! That's really strange that Silverlight doesn't support this...
But anyway - thanks! Tim.