topic Re: Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation in Revit API Forum

Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:51:34 GMT

I have tried (a lot) to get the right orientation and papresize in a pdf plot

I got the right printer, the right filename

but not the right papersize and orientation, I am usingBoundingBoxUV to get the Sheetsize and from there the orientation of the sheet

that works fine 🙂

I have been trying with 3 different pdf printers, without luck 😞

My the code looke like this, in this case I am trying to print all shests starting with an "A" to be printet in A3.

PrintManager PrintM = OpenDoc.PrintManager;

PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting = PrintM.PrintSetup.InSession;

PrintM.SelectNewPrintDriver("PDF995"); //("CutePDF Writer")("PDF995")("PDFCreator")

PrintM.PrintToFile = true;

foreach (ViewSheet vs in new FilteredElementCollector(OpenDoc).OfClass(typeof(ViewSheet)).Cast<ViewSheet>())

{

if (vs.SheetNumber[0].ToString() != "A")

{

PDF_Name = vs.SheetNumber.Substring(0, vs.SheetNumber.Length - 3);

PrintM.PrintToFileName = DistFolder + @"\" + Department_number.AsString() + "-" + PDF_Name;

PaperSizeSet PaperSizeSet = PrintM.PaperSizes;

PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting.PrintParameters.PageOrientation = PageOrientationType.Portrait;

foreach (PaperSize PS in PaperSizeSet) // Finding the right papersize in the printer

{

if (PS.Name.ToString() == "A3")

{

PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting.PrintParameters.PaperSize = PS;

break;

}

PrintM.Apply();

PrintM.SubmitPrint(vs);

}

} // end of foreach (ViewSheet vs........

What do I do wrong ??

Regards

Anders

Re: Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation

Aaron.Lu — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:36:26 GMT

Hi Enthusiast, I did not find any problem of your code, I don't have PDF995 driver, but I tried "Foxit Reader PDF Printer", it works well.

Re: Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 13:07:20 GMT

I didn't have "Foxit Reader PDF Printer" but I have nov 🙂

But it still don't work on my computer

I doesn't make it portrait and I still can't get the right papersize

Do you have some special settings on the printer ??

Anders

Re: Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation

Aaron.Lu — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:13:07 GMT

looks like you need to get a setting object, modify it, and set it back, would you like to try this?

var setting = PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting;

//...
// change properties of setting objecct
//...

PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting = setting;
PrintM.Apply();
PrintM.SubmitPrint(vs);

Re: Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:16:04 GMT

It still doesn't work.

When I restart Revit it will print all the sheets with the Papersize, I have set for the first sheet

Whitch meens that Revit have control of the printer, but in the Revit session, and not sheet by sheet

And the orientation is still the same 😞

and the PrintM.PrintToFileName .... give the files the right name, but not in the right folder, but in the printer default save folder

My code look like this, have I used "setting" in the right way or ???

PrintManager PrintM = OpenDoc.PrintManager;

PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting = PrintM.PrintSetup.InSession;

InSessionPrintSetting inSessionPrintSetting = PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting as InSessionPrintSetting;

PrintM.SelectNewPrintDriver("PDF995");

PrintM.PrintToFile = true;

var setting = PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting;

foreach (ViewSheet vs in new FilteredElementCollector(OpenDoc).OfClass(typeof(ViewSheet)).Cast<ViewSheet>())

{

if (vs.SheetNumber[0].ToString() != "A4")

{

PDF_Name = vs.SheetNumber.Substring(0, vs.SheetNumber.Length - 3);

PrintM.PrintToFileName = DistFolder + @"\" + Association_number.AsString() + "-" + Department_number.AsString() + "-" + PDF_Name + " - Plan.";

PaperSize Printerpapersizes = PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting.PrintParameters.PaperSize;

PaperSizeSet PaperSizeSet = PrintM.PaperSizes;

setting.PrintParameters.PageOrientation = PageOrientationType.Portrait;

foreach (PaperSize PS in PaperSizeSet)

{

if (PS.Name.ToString() == pps.ToString())

{

setting.PrintParameters.PaperSize = PS;

break;

}

PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting = setting;

PrintM.Apply();

PrintM.SubmitPrint(vs);

}

Anders

Re: Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation

Aaron.Lu — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 03:15:07 GMT

Thanks for checking.

Now I've got another extra step, that is: save the setting, then the in-session setting will be actually changed. Hope it can work.

    using (Transaction transaction = new Transaction(doc))
    {
        transaction.Start("save setting");
        PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting = setting;
        PrintM.PrintSetup.SaveAs("newsetting");
        transaction.Commit();
    }
    PrintM.Apply();
    PrintM.SubmitPrint(vs);

Re: Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:50:56 GMT

We are gettting close 🙂

Revit couldn't not delete or overwrite the saves setting, so I rolled the transaction back after printing, that worked

Transaction transaction = new Transaction(OpenDoc);

transaction.Start("save setting");

PrintM.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting = setting;

PrintM.PrintSetup.SaveAs("Tempsetting");

PrintM.Apply();

PrintM.SubmitPrint(vs);

transaction.RollBack();

But I still can't get the printer to save the pdf file in the right place, Do you have any ideas to fix that ?

Regards

Anders

Re: Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation

Revitalizer — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:59:17 GMT

Hi,

"But I still can't get the printer to save the pdf file in the right place":

what about just moving the file to the correct place, after printing ...?

Not a solution but a workaround.

Revitalizer

Re: Print Manager, Papresize, Paper orientation

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 10:01:01 GMT

Yes 🙂

But I have > 100 useres, I they all have to set the settings right, to be sure that the printer saved in the same place so I know where to move the file from !!