BSPrinter

Visual Basic relies on its Printer object for printing jobs but you must create a dedicated control to allow print preview. BSPrinter is an ActiveX component that saves you the trouble of creating a control for this specific task.

The component is designed to add print preview capabilities to Visual Basic 6, replacing the Printer object altogether. In Windows, it comes as an OCX file that must be registered to work.

The PrintPreview control does all the hard work and, configured correctly, it can call the ShowPreview method to allow print previewing. A new control is added to the main toolbar, which enables you to perform various actions and configure the dialog’s properties.

The package comes with detailed usage instructions and code snippets that you must place inside your code for the print preview function to work. Please note that you must adapt the source code to handle different page widths and heights beforehand.

Once registered, BSPrinter is the one to handles paper margins and page numbers so, if you have such functions and snippets in your code, you will have to remove them.

BSPrinter comes with various formatting settings and delivers different methods to handle and print the content of MSFlexGrid, MSHFlexGrid , RichTextBox and other similar controls.