The TPrintPreview control is a descendent of Delphi's TScrollBox control. This control can be used for creating, displaying, manipulating, and printing pages.
Here are the key features of the TPrintPreview control:
- supports almost unlimited amount of pages
- automatically adjusts printer's paper size and orientation at the print time
- automatically adjusts mapping modes
- previewed pages can be scaled with an arbitrarily zoom factor
- shows created pages while new pages are being processed
- displayed pages can be scrolled by mouse dragging
- pages can be saved to and restored from file
- each page is accessible as a Windows Metafile image
- has some methods for rendering rich text format
- can manage custom printer forms (custom paper sizes)
- allows background and annotation for both print and preview pages
- both preview and print pages can be converted to grayscale, and you can adjust brightness and contrast of them
- allows inserting, replacing, editing, deleting, and reordering of pages freely at any time
- can save pages as PDF document by using Synopse PDF Engine or dsPDF Library
- can save pages as multi-frame TIFF image.
- has a complete set of properties and events
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