dsPrinter is used for printing. It is used just like TPrinter except it has a lot of additional properties and procedures to work with. dsPrinter works with metafiles so you can always replay pages to some other canvas like jpg or pdf. These way print preview is done and dsPrintPreview is a component that comes with dsPrinter.

To print with dsPrinter you set page size, call BeginDoc, do your priting and call EndDoc. After that you can preview, print or anything else. Here are some things that might be interesting:

• print side pages (if db grid for example is to wide to fit to one page, you can use side pages and just attach those pages horitontaly one next to other after you print things out.
• pages are stored in metafiles so you can replay that metafiles to any canvas (already supported are print preview, jpg, and pdf if you have pdf library like llPDFLib of llionsoft).
• get various info about printers (duplex support, supported paper names and metrics,…)
• print angled text and squeezed text
• supports swaping of pages
• easy tell printer which pages to print (1, 2-7)
• print two pages per sheet
• print booklet
• print strings
• print TreeView
• print rich
• print synedit
• includes dsDBGridPrinter

dsPrinter is shareware. You can purchase it at Share-it. Product id 300045363.

dsPrinter already comes with dsReport.

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