Printing WinForm with controls using PrintDocument component c# [closed] - winforms

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I'm really not interested in having someone else do my job for me, I would really just appreciate a point in the right direction.
I have a couple of Forms that need to be printed. All of them consisting of multiple datagridviews and other controls. Jobcards, manufacturing sheets, stock cutting lists, quotes, etc etc..
I have tried so many possible solutions on the internet. The PrintForm component is practically useless because of poor resolution. I've tried Crystal Report, with some success, I use it to generate and print my quotes and invoices.
'Capturing' the form (Bitmap) ...(witch I guess in my case is a slightly better alternative to printForm) Doesnt cut it ether.
MSDN Printing the Form (Visual C#)
I'm rather demotivated, since this is the very last part of my application before testing.
I really want to understand and learn everything I can about the PrintDocument Component so I can FINALLY solve this problem and gain some VS-printing experience.
I'm about to get in depth with iText-Sharp now as my last resort. so please tell me if it will prove to be fruitless(in my case atleast;) That would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you kind Sir or Lady for your time and possibly your knowledge
Kindest regards
Herman Vercuiel
Quote Form that also generates similarly in Crystal Reports
The forms that I need to print... The amount of Forms vary depending on the type and amount of products ordered.
EDIT:
I'm settling for this at the moment..
How can I make sure this is fitted into one page?
currently a part of the right side of the form is missing.
private void CaptureScreen()
{
Graphics mygraphics = this.CreateGraphics();
Size s = this.Size;
memoryImage = new Bitmap(s.Width, s.Height, mygraphics);
Graphics memoryGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(memoryImage);
IntPtr dc1 = mygraphics.GetHdc();
IntPtr dc2 = memoryGraphics.GetHdc();
BitBlt(dc2, 0, 0, this.ClientRectangle.Width, this.ClientRectangle.Height, dc1, 0, 0, 13369376);
mygraphics.ReleaseHdc(dc1);
memoryGraphics.ReleaseHdc(dc2);
}

Answer 1

The controls on a form are optimized to be rendered on a low-res raster device (the screen).
The print are optimized to be rendered on a hi-res raster device (the printer).
So, if you render a form to a printer, you may get a very tiny print, or a big print with low res (like the screen).
I'm not an expert of printing... but the only way I can think of printing a form on paper without having the low-res big ugly pixel is to re-render all the form objects: enumerate all the controls on the form, and draw by yourself the controls the way you want, so you can decide exactly how to render them in hi-res. So youcan decide the looks of the border of a button, a combo box, whatever...
Implementing something like this looks like a very big job...
Update
Another, simpler, option may be to use a bitmap to raster converter.
You can grab the screen as a bitmap, pass the bitmap in a raster-to-vector converter, obtain a vecotrialized version of your bitmap, and then you can directly print this vector-based image.
But automated raster-to-vector conversion may works... or may not work.
Your mileage may vary.
Maybe you can try "by-hand" to grab the screen and do a bitmap-to-vector conversion using some free tools, like Inkscape (start Inkskape, import the bitmap, then go in menu Path\Trace Bitmap, and try out the various options (color, BW, smoothing...)).
Then if you have good results, maybe you can find a raster-to bitmap tool to integrate in you application.