Printing

05-08-2007 3:09 PM |

The print preview in Firefox doesn't show any of my Silverlight content.  Is there a way to print Silverlight content from Firefox?

Not so much a Silverlight question, but I was also wondering if there's a way to print horizontal overflow without using the 'shrink to fit' option?

Thanks

Re: Printing

05-08-2007 8:21 PM |

We currently do not have support for being printed in the browser. We are evaluating plans to be able to print content in our 1.1 release.

-mark
Program Manager
Microsoft
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Re: Printing

06-17-2009 5:49 AM |

I have tested it with the brand new Silverlight 3 beta version. Printing from Firefox does not show the content of the silverlight plug-in. Using Flash i can embed the Flash plug-in into my html page and print the page inclusive the Flash part (eg. some graphics) with the browsers print functinality. Are there plans to do this in the Silverlight 3 production version? Thx a lot for your answers in advance.

Re: Printing

06-17-2009 5:54 AM |

Unless there is a miracle, there won't be printing support in SL3 RTW (alledgedly slated for July 10).

Re: Printing

07-21-2009 5:35 AM |

I think with the 3.0 release you can do better than print screen - all the pieces are there to write MS Office documents. Costs more development time but in many cases the pay off for the user will be very beneficial.

http://www.dotnetsolutions.co.uk/blog/archive/2009/07/21/writing-ms-office-documents-from-silverlight-3/