topic Re: PrinterManager PrintSetup do not apply settings in Revit API Forum

PrinterManager PrintSetup do not apply settings

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:35:36 GMT

Hi.

I creatint Revit Addin and need print pdf files. I Use PDFCreator virtual printer. And faced with problem when i set parameters to print manager, for example :

printer.SelectNewPrintDriver(printerNames.FirstOrDefault(g=>g.Contains("PDFCreator")));
printer.PrintToFileName = sPath+fileName;
printer.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting.PrintParameters.PaperSize = a4Ps;
printer.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting.PrintParameters.PageOrientation = PageOrientationType.Landscape;
printer.PrintSetup.InSession.PrintParameters.PageOrientation = PageOrientationType.Landscape;
printer.Apply();

when i call SubmitPrint a get pdf with Portrait orientation. All parameters get from print dialog. If i print from print dialog (Ctrl+P) and check Landscape orientation,scale 100% and Center position. Everythig printed correct. And after that i can use ,y PDFCreator from code and they printed correct too.

I suppese that Apply() method didn't work correctly. My PArameters didn't save and passed to PDFCreator from macros.

Does anybody get such problems?

Thanks in advance.

P.S.Sorry for bad english.

Re: PrinterManager PrintSetup do not apply settings

saikat — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:14:53 GMT

We did have some other API user mention that the Print API settings did not affect the output. We had brought this behavior to the Dev Team's attention then. Your post here seems to mention the same behavior as well.

Re: PrinterManager PrintSetup do not apply settings

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:36:33 GMT

Is there any workaround? I need to print correct from macros.

Re: PrinterManager PrintSetup do not apply settings

akira.kudo — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:38:00 GMT

You can use PrintSetup.Save() or SaveAs() method this case like code below.(See also attached jpg) They can be called to make Revit remembering the print setup changes.

If the current Print setup is “In-Session”, this cannot be saved by Save().

You can save it to your own print setup, or save as to a new print setup.

<code_begin>

namespace RevitAddin1

{

[Transaction(TransactionMode.Manual)]

public class Command : IExternalCommand

{

public Autodesk.Revit.UI.Result Execute(ExternalCommandData commandData,

ref string message, Autodesk.Revit.DB.ElementSet elements)

{

// Filter all printable views in current document and print them,

// the print will raise events registered in controlled application.

// After run this external command please refer to log files under folder of this assembly.

Document document = commandData.Application.ActiveUIDocument.Document;

UIDocument uidocument = commandData.Application.ActiveUIDocument;

using (Transaction tx = new Transaction(document))

{

tx.Start("Transaction Name");

PrintManager pm = document.PrintManager;

pm.SelectNewPrintDriver("CutePDF writer");

pm.PrintRange = PrintRange.Current;

pm.CombinedFile = true;

pm.PrintToFile = true;

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

pm.PrintSetup.SaveAs("test");

pm.Apply();

tx.Commit();

}

// return succeed by default

return Autodesk.Revit.UI.Result.Succeeded;

}

<code_end>

Hope this helps,

Re: PrinterManager PrintSetup do not apply settings

aricke59 — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:24:56 GMT

This seems to still be the case with Revit 2015.

The only way you can save your In-Session print settings, e.g., so that it could be accessible via the normal Revit print dialog, is to do a saveas. This has to be one, out of many, of the least intuitive things in the printmanager.

Note that once you have done the saveas, you can then delete the newly saved printsetup.

Re: PrinterManager PrintSetup do not apply settings

Extraneous — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 10:49:16 GMT

@akira.kudo Revit 2017, are there any fixes? This code does not work: set to shades of gray, printed as color. The same bug in the SDK Sample ViewPrinter (if you select "setup - <in-session>" and "black lines", color is printed anyway). "Save" or "save as" is not suitable, because I want to print without opening a transaction.

public void StartPrint()
{
	Document doc = this.ActiveUIDocument.Document;
	List<ViewSheet> sheets = new FilteredElementCollector(doc)
		.OfClass(typeof(ViewSheet))
		.Cast<ViewSheet>()
		.ToList();

	foreach (ViewSheet sheet in sheets)
	{
		Document curDoc = sheet.Document;
		PrintManager pManager = curDoc.PrintManager;
		pManager.SelectNewPrintDriver("PDFCreator");
		pManager.PrintRange = PrintRange.Current;
		pManager.Apply();

		pManager.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting = pManager.PrintSetup.InSession;
		PrintParameters pps = pManager.PrintSetup.CurrentPrintSetting.PrintParameters;
		pps.PaperPlacement = PaperPlacementType.Center;
		pps.ZoomType = ZoomType.FitToPage;
		pps.ColorDepth = ColorDepthType.GrayScale;
		pManager.Apply();

		pManager.SubmitPrint(sheet); //print in colors, no grayscales
	}
}

Re: PrinterManager PrintSetup do not apply settings

Archigrafix_Norge — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:21:45 GMT

The SDK example (viewprinter) is suppose to mimic the Print Dialog but it does not work when it comes to the color properties. It works fine in regards of the other properties.

This looks like a bug in the API and should be addressed by Autodesk.

Does anybody has a workaround to produce greyscale prints?

Re: PrinterManager PrintSetup do not apply settings

2319837182 — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:40:55 GMT

printManager.PrintSetup.Save(); //it works