Note: To be able to use the samples you must install novaPDF SDK as samples work only with it. Download it here: nova PDF SDK.
The printing job is made using the package "System.Drawing.Printing" Basically the sample determines the active profile, makes a copy of it into a profile called "Test VBNet", sets the new profile as active, sets the subject of the generated PDF document, prints a page, and restores original printer settings. The location of the generated document depends on whatever the settings are for the current active profile.
Notice
Because of the specific exception based error handling in .NET, all calls to methods in the INovaPDFOptions interface must be nested within a try–catch block. Consider for example that we want to add a profile called "test", but the profile "test" already exists. Then the call pNova.AddProfile("test") will throw an "System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException". with the ErrorCode property set to NV_PROFILE_EXISTS (0xD5DA0006).
Source Code
Imports System
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Printing
Imports System.Windows.Forms
' the novapiLib package must be added as a COM reference
Imports novapiLib
Module Module1
' <summary>
' The main entry point for the application.
' </summary>
Const PRINTER_NAME As String = "novaPDF Pro v6"
Const PROFILE_NAME As String = "Test VBNet"
Const PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC As Integer = 0
Const NOVAPDF_INFO_SUBJECT As String = "Document Subject"
Const NV_PROFILE_EXISTS As Long = -707133434
Sub Main()
Try
' create the NovaPdfOptions object
Dim pNova As NovaPdfOptions
pNova = New NovaPdfOptions
' initialize the NovaPdfOptions object
' if you have an application license for novaPDF SDK,
' pass both the registration name and the license key to the Initialize() function
' pNova.Initialize(PRINTER_NAME, "<registration name>", "<license key>");
pNova.Initialize(PRINTER_NAME, "", "", "")
' get the active profile ...
Dim activeProfile As String
Dim nActivePublic As Integer
pNova.GetActiveProfile(activeProfile, nActivePublic)
Try
' and make a copy of it
pNova.CopyProfile(activeProfile, PROFILE_NAME, PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC)
Catch e As System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
' ignore profile exists error
If (NV_PROFILE_EXISTS = e.ErrorCode) Then
System.Console.WriteLine("Profile already exists")
Else
' more serious error, propagate it
Throw e
End If
End Try
' set the copy profile as active profile ...
pNova.SetActiveProfile(PROFILE_NAME, PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC)
' and set some options
pNova.SetOptionString(NOVAPDF_INFO_SUBJECT, "VB.Net Hello document", PROFILE_NAME, PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC)
' print a test page, using the previously set active profile settings
Dim pd As PrintDocument = New PrintDocument
pd.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = PRINTER_NAME
AddHandler pd.PrintPage, AddressOf PrintPageFunction
pd.Print()
pNova.SetActiveProfile(activeProfile, nActivePublic)
pNova.DeleteProfile(PROFILE_NAME, PROFILE_IS_PUBLIC)
Catch e As System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
MessageBox.Show(e.Message)
Catch e As Exception
MessageBox.Show(e.Message)
End Try
End Sub
' and finally the function that actually prints the page
Private Sub PrintPageFunction(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal ev As PrintPageEventArgs)
Dim str As String = "novaPDF says Hello World from VB.Net"
Dim font As Font = New Font("Arial", 16)
Dim brush As Brush = New SolidBrush(Color.Black)
ev.Graphics.DrawString(Str, font, brush, 20.0!, 20.0!)
ev.HasMorePages = False
End Sub
End Module
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