system.drawing.printing question

Hi there everyone....
I have done tons of reading in this forum and others about the best way to print documents (word and pdf) and have mixed reviews. If anyone can answer my question I will be eternally grateful... here goes...

in .Net's PrintDocument class, how do I print a word document using this class I have read that you need to open a streamreader (and presumably read the doc) then handle the pageevent arg, but if I open a streamreader for the word file, will it lose the formatting

I know I can use interop to do this printing, but all documentation I have read indicates I shouldn't do this, and besides I don't get the printer control I need when doing this.

any ideas or suggesstions will be helpful..

Thanks

Justin

.NET Development8

You can't make this work. The Word .doc file format is not documented, properly formatting its many styles, tables, and OLE objects would be a major undertaking. Just ask Word to do the printing for you with Automation. Repost your question in the VSTO forum if you want to find out how to use the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word namespace.

Many thanks for your response. I have surcumbed and used the word automation which works fine. One more question for you, do you know a way of setting printing settings while printing docs in automation

I need to be able to say print in Grey scale or colour depending on a few paramaters