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Last post Jul 21, 2009 09:35 AM by johndd

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  • swirlingmass

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    Printing

    May 08, 2007 07:09 PM | LINK

    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

  • Mark Rideout

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    Re: Printing

    May 09, 2007 12:21 AM | LINK

    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.

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  • wurglitsch

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    Re: Printing

    Jun 17, 2009 09:49 AM | LINK

    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.
  • ksleung

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    Re: Printing

    Jun 17, 2009 09:54 AM | LINK

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

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    Re: Printing

    Jul 21, 2009 09:35 AM | LINK

    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/

    Silverightlight3 OpenXML Zip Office