Hello Markus,
Thank you for your feedback.
You can take the available width from DefaultPageSettings property of the UltraGridPrintDocument. DefaultPageSettings has Bounds and Margins properties. The Bounds width will return the entire width of the page and the Margins Left and Right will return the left and right margin respectively. To get the available page width you need to subtract both margins from the entire width. You can use code like this:

private int GetPageWidth()
{
    int entireWidth = this.ultraGridPrintDocument1.DefaultPageSettings.Bounds.Width;
    int leftMargin = this.ultraGridPrintDocument1.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Left;
    int rightMargin = this.ultraGridPrintDocument1.DefaultPageSettings.Margins.Right;
    return entireWidth - leftMargin - rightMargin;
}

Hello Milko,

thank you for the sample.

There is one unsolved problem / question: I mentioned that I like to have a multi-column legend. Therefore the required Padding.Bootom space is reduced by divide by the number of columns.

My problem is that in the ButtonPrint_Click event I have not found a property for the PageBody-width for calculating the number of columns (numCols = Floor( "PageBodyWidth" / maxItemSize.Width)) and in the PrintDocument_PageBodyPrinting-event the Padding.Bottom properties are read_only.

Do you have a solution for this problem?

Best regards

Markus

Hello Markus,

Thank you for your feedback.

Yes, you are on the right way. You can use PageBodyPrinting event and add the legend to your printed document. Please check the attached sample project where I have used this approach and let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thank you for using Infragistics Controls.

Hello,

I have pasted the picture from snippin tool into description box. However, in the small sample I found here (http://ko.infragistics.com/community/forums/t/80903.aspx) you see that event handler of PageBodyPrinting-event, some text is written to the page body. After that Handles = true is set, therefore no grid content is printed, even set Handled = false allows not grid content and addition content print togehther.

I have figured out using the PageBodyPrinted-event instead, i can draw some text to my legend rectangle. For testing I have set the PrintDocument.PageBody.Padding.Bottom = 100;

Therefore my legend rectangle ist the padding area:

Rectangle rectLegend = new Rectangle();
rectLegend.X = e.RectInsideMargins.X;
rectLegend.Y = e.RectInsideMargins.Y + e.RectInsidePadding.Height;
rectLegend.Width = e.RectInsideMargins.Width;
rectLegend.Height = e.RectInsideMargins.Height - e.RectInsidePadding.Height;

Now, I have to calculate the required Padding.Bottom space (based on number of lines, font) and draw my legend in some line - multicolumn layout splitting the whole legend rectangle into "child" rectangles.

Please let me know is this approach does not come to the end for some reason or if I should try something similar in the footer area. In this project only grid contents are printed in this way. For all other reports, however, another reporting tool is used.

Best regards

Markus