print with the same textbox format

abdrabaa · July 4th, 2007, 12:51 AM

Hi,

I need your help in printing text. I need to print the text with center alignment or at least print the text in the same format shown in the screen (regarding spaces and alignments).
Also, is it possible to print a text by multiple printers?

DZukiewicz · July 9th, 2007, 04:53 AM

I wrote a response to someone earlier regarding alignment.

For left align, use PadRight (placing spaces on the right of the text).
For right align, use PadLeft (placing spaces on the left of the text).

E.g

"DATE: 03/05/2006"

PadRight (30):
"DATE: 03/05/2006 "

PadLeft (30):
" DATE: 03/05/2006"

Centering is done by getting the length of the line, the length of the text and finding the start position.

Code:

public static string CentreText(string text, int widthOfLine)
{
     int startPosition = (int)Math.Floor(( width_of_line - text.Length ) / 2);

     StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder( new string(' ' , widthOfLine) );
     str.Insert(text,startPosition);

     return str.ToString();
}