Printing an existing PDF file generates an error

GemBox.Pdf
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I am trying to print some existing pdf files of drawings. These pdf files may have multiple pages and each page may be a different size; Letter, Tabloid, ANSI C, ANSI D, etc.

The process I go through is this:

Dim MyPrintServer as PrintServer = new PrintServer

  1. I create a PdfDocument
    Dim PDFDocumentObj as PdfDocument = PdfDocument.Load(FileToPrint)

  2. I iterate through each page of the document to determine what size it is and set my print settings accordingly.

For PageCount = 1 to PDFDocumentObj.Pages.Count
      Dim MyPrintQueue as PrintQueue = MyPrintServer.GetPrintQueue(PrinterToUse)
      Dim PDFPageObj as PDFPage = PDFDocumentObj.Pages.Item(PageCount - 1)
      Dim MyPrintTicket as PrintTicket = MyPrintQueue.DefaultPrintTicket
      MyPrintTicket.PageMediaSize = New PageMediaSize(PDFPageObj.Size.Width, PDFPageObj.Size.Height)
      Dim MyPrintOptions as PrintOptions = New PrintOptions(MyPrintTicket.GetXmlStream)
      MyPrintOptions.DocumentName = FileName & "-" & PageCount.ToString
      MyPrintOptions.FromPage = PageCount
      MyPrintOptions.ToPage = PageCount
      MyPrintOptions.CopyCount = NumberOfCopies
     
      Try
               PDFDocumentObj.Print(MyPrintQueue.FullName, MyPrintOptions)
               ReturnedBoolean = True
      Catch ex As Exception
               ReturnedBoolean = False
      End Try
Next

When my code hits the Print statement, it throws an error with the following message:

Value Does Not Fall Within The Expected Range

Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I will admit that I am new to printing in this manner, using PrintTicket and all, so my methodology could be way off.

Thanks in advance,

Darren Haverstick
Paul Mueller Company

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Hi Darren,

The problem occurs because the PrintOptions.FromPage and PrintOptions.ToPage are also zero-indexed. In other words, you’ll need to set those to PageCount - 1 (the same as how you’re retrieving from the PDFDocumentObj.Pages collection).

Anyway, GemBox.Pdf will set the media size for each page, so there is no need for you to do that.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Mario

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Thank you, Mario! That fixed the problem.

Darren