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• November 01, 2015 08:58

Hi,

 

I'm little bit struggling with getting appropriate preview image file, that I can use later in my application for showing (in pictureBox) users how their label will look like.

 

I have a lot of layouts connected to SQL database and this is my approach:

 

 private Engine btEngine = new Engine(); //BT engine instances
 private string path = string.Empty; //path for storing label preview
 private LabelFormatDocument btFormat = null; //declaration of label format

btEngine.Start(); //start BT engine
btFormat = btEngine.Documents.Open(labelData.Layout); //open appropriate layout
 btFormat.DatabaseConnections.QueryPrompts["RecordNo"].Value = order.LabelNo; //promp query
 path = Path.GetTempFileName(); //set path to temporary image file
 btFormat.ExportImageToFile(path, ImageType.JPEG, Seagull.BarTender.Print.ColorDepth.ColorDepth24bit, new Resolution(575, 270), OverwriteOptions.Overwrite); //export image preview file
 previewPictureBox.ImageLocation = path; //set picture in picture box
btEngine.Stop(); //stop BT engine
 

Everything is working just fine, but I'm ending with image that is not prompt, all i can get is preview of general layout - not filled with data from database. The result is the same just like if I'll use LabelFormatThumbnail which is not what I want.

 

Could you please help me solve this tricky situation?

 

 

Thanks in advance!

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  Shotaro Ito

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • November 07, 2015 15:24

  Check this post:

  http://forums.seagullscientific.com/index.php?/topic/2934-how-to-update-printpreview/?p=9798

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  Legacy Poster

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • December 11, 2015 17:39

  Method ExportPrintPreviewToFile() is working perfectly.

   

  Thank you.

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