control page break when printing from windows forms .net 2.0

Question

Hi I have been looking for a way to control page breaks when printing Textbox.Text. I am generating and formatting a short multi-page report and displaying it in a multi-line textbox control. When I print the textbox I want to be able to set page breaks on the printer as needed. Injecting a form feed character in the text doesn't do it. I haven't been able to find any help on Google yet. Can someone here help me? Thanks.

Ed Phillips · Answer

I figured a solution: Intercept each line of textbox using StreamReader. Before printing look for form feed char (\f). If found control hasMorePages and continue 'til done.

Ed Phillips · Answer

Actually I didn't try using the \f. I am using 
. Maybe the \f will make a difference. Thanks.

Ed Phillips · Answer

Yes I put ASCII char 12 directly into the text of the textbox. The printer ignores it. In MFC C++ I used this technique successfully. There's something different in .NET. .NET seems to like the graphics solution to printing...

Scott Lysle · Answer

Well you are right the formfeed character is ascii character 12. I don't think it would make a difference but if you are using Visual Basic you might try injecting ControlChars.FormFeed or if it is C# you might try \f. Again this likely won't matter since both end up being ascii character 12.