Printing API question

russ.green — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:27:26 GMT

Having trouble with a bit of printing code if the community would be kind enought to offer some help. I have looked at ViewPrinter sample but A: struggle to read that much C# and B: think its more about replicating the revit UI for each print.

What I'm doing is looking through a list of sheets and exporting to DWG, DWF and hopefully printing to PDF. I want to determine the sheet size at runtime and adjust the print settings to suite. This works well for the DWF method.

So here is a snippet. There is a simplified UI (a single page in a wizard) where some print settings are selected. Then for each sheet I call this method. Most things work. My chosen printer is used and the sheet is printed to the correct place but my print settings are not saving so the PDF is generated using the selected driver but with the wrong page size, colour settings, etc

    Private Sub ExportPDF(ByVal ExportFileName As String, ByRef thisdoc As Document, ByRef sheet As ViewSheet)
        Try
            'configure filename path for final PDF save location
            Dim sFullPath As String = Path.Combine(sbIssuePath.ToString, ExportFileName)
         
           'get the sizes with from the titleblock instances
           'method called to get these values from sheet

            pMgr = thisdoc.PrintManager
            pMgr.PrintRange = Autodesk.Revit.DB.PrintRange.Select
            pMgr.SelectNewPrintDriver(PDFPRINTERNAME)
            pMgr.PrintToFile = True
            pMgr.PrintToFileName = sFullPath

            pSetup = pMgr.PrintSetup
            pParams = pSetup.CurrentPrintSetting.PrintParameters

            pParams.ZoomType = ZoomType.Zoom
            pParams.Zoom = 100
            If Width > Height Then
                pParams.PageOrientation = PageOrientationType.Landscape
            Else
                pParams.PageOrientation = PageOrientationType.Portrait
            End If
            pParams.PaperPlacement = PaperPlacementType.Center

            pParams.ColorDepth = CType(Me.cboPDFColors.SelectedItem, ColorDepthType)
            pParams.RasterQuality = CType(Me.cboPDFRasterQuality.SelectedItem, RasterQualityType)

            pParams.HiddenLineViews = HiddenLineViewsType.VectorProcessing
            pParams.ViewLinksinBlue = Me.chkPDFViewLinksInBlue.CheckState
            pParams.HideReforWorkPlanes = Me.chkPDFHideRefWorkPlanes.CheckState
            pParams.HideUnreferencedViewTags = Me.chkPDFHideUnreferenceViewTags.CheckState
            pParams.HideCropBoundaries = Me.chkPDFHideCropBoundaries.CheckState
            pParams.HideScopeBoxes = Me.chkPDFHideScopeBox.CheckState
            pParams.ReplaceHalftoneWithThinLines = Me.chkPDFHalftone.CheckState
            pParams.MaskCoincidentLines = Me.chkPDFCoincidentLines.CheckState

            Dim PaperSize As String = GetPapersize(Width, Height)
            For Each ps As Autodesk.Revit.DB.PaperSize In pMgr.PaperSizes
                If ps.Name.Equals(PaperSize) Then
                    pParams.PaperSize = ps
                    Exit For
                End If
            Next

            pMgr.Apply()

            'Try
            '    oPM.ViewSheetSetting.SaveAs("transmittal")
            'Catch ex As Exception
            '    'do nothing and move on
            'End Try
            Try
                pSetup.SaveAs("transmittal")
                'oPM.PrintSetup.SaveAs("transmittal")
            Catch ex As Exception
                'do nothing and move on
            End Try

            pMgr.SubmitPrint(sheet)

            'Try
            '    oPM.ViewSheetSetting.Delete()
            'Catch ex As Exception
            '    'do nothing and move on
            'End Try
            'Try
            '    oPM.PrintSetup.Delete()
            'Catch ex As Exception
            '    'do nothing and move on
            'End Try

        Catch ex As Exception
            TaskDialog.Show("There has been an error generating the PDF file " & ExportFileName & "." & Environment.NewLine & "Please manually print the PDF using the Revit print command." & Environment.NewLine & ex.ToString, MsgBoxStyle.Information, "Error creating PDF")
        Finally

        End Try
    End Sub

Re: Printing API question

russ.green — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:41:33 GMT

just missed setting the setup for the manager....doh!

Re: Printing API question

mikako_harada — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:57:00 GMT

Hi Russ,

So, did you solve the problem? If so, it will be helpful for other if you can post the working version here.

Thank you.

Re: Printing API question

russ.green — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:00:49 GMT

Just needed this before configuring the settings

pMgr.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting = pMgr.PrintSetup.InSession

Re: Printing API question

mikako_harada — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:18:08 GMT

Thank you, Russ!

Re: Printing API question

18627796338 — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:05:40 GMT

Hello. I also faced the same problem. Could you post where you put that adding code? Because when I added that code into mine, it still didn't work. Could you please post your final code? Thank you very much.

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