Just the color conversion + a few details left and I have achieved the first part to print diagrams. What you see below is the top of a preview. Color conversion is an issue because as we design on dark theam the colors might not be great for a white paper background. To deal with…
In this example I loaded an existing diagram and intend to print it using the “Print Page” tool. PrintPage allows me to draw a rectangle on screen of what I want out as a page. I used this on an earlier CASE tool and it proved to be very valuable. The process of printing an…
I use a Canvas as background for the diagrams and as I print I just provide a different Canvas using the same functions to draw on screen and paper. To zoom per page I just do the following – an example to zoom to 50%. The second part is to just draw the symbols using…
This shows 3 diagrams with circles being printed. I have only modified the Ellipse symbol to support printing so far and it works well with a few comments. (1) Colors on the symbol need a white paper version. (2) printing is 1:1 in size, I need to zoom and I have a path, but I…
I managed to actually draw some objects on a preview page that I also can print. This is a good start and I will soon have the diagrams printed on paper.
WPF have a very simple way of printing what they call a “Visual”, basically it print what you see on the screen, so to use this you need a UserControl. I loadet the diagram below and tested the PrintVisual statement. I have a Brother DCP-9015 color laser that also has it’s own preview system and…
Documentation is a vital part of any project since we need to make presentations of our work on regular bases. Managers/Users who pay for your time will like to be kept informed and have a saying in what you do and this takes time, so lets attempt to automate it. Most engineers would love to…
It is quite easy to use a tree compont to add content and BSA itself to edit that content as a WYSIWYG document to create tailored reports that is automated according to a document specification. Later I generate an XPS document and print it – skip the Preview and use BSA Canvas directly. This is…
Printing using WPF is rather straight forward,, but it requires a bit of work + in the case of BSA we need Print Control, Preview, Paper Printer, PDF Generator and Web Pages. In many modern companies they have a preference for PDF or Web pages rather than paper documents these days. I have done this…
I am keen on releasing the first BSA version because the project has been on-going for some time + I want to scale up with more developers. The first target is to have a 1.0 with modelling only released before christmas.