Printer dialog settings behavior: some settings are not retained

[Fabio Pagano]

In code i make appear a PrintDialog then i pass its "PrinterSettings" to the report "Print" method asking it to show another print dialog:

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Dim pd As New System.Windows.Forms.PrintDialog
pd.ShowDialog()
Report.Print(True, pd.PrinterSettings)

If in the first "Print dialog" i choose a papersource different than default (eg. "Manual feed") then when appears the second "Print dialog" (invoked by the report.print method) the papersource proposed is the default, not the "Manual feed", though i passed the first "Print dialog" printer settings.

Why is this setting (and others too) not retained?

It seems that retained settings are only number of copies and few others.

Thanks.

[Fabio Pagano]

Please ignore the above message.

I wrote that code to see if printersettings were retained if i passed the printersettings taken from my print dialog.

I've tried with a physical printer and all worked fine if i change the "ShowPrintDialog" parameter from True to False (effectively i need to do so because print dialog must appear only once). It was only a test...

Now this is my code and seems ok, the papersource specified in my print dialog is honoured.

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Dim pd As New System.Windows.Forms.PrintDialog
pd.ShowDialog()
Report.Print(FALSE, pd.PrinterSettings)

I'm doing other tests, and i've found something that needs clarification, but i'll open another thread.

Thank you.