Print preview is not taking over the given print settings

[neplan]

Description

We have a .NET Framework 4.8 application. We are passing some settings to the print dialogue:

PrintDialog pd = new PrintDialog(); pd.PrintQueue = SelectedPrinter; if (Orientation == 0) pd.PrintTicket.PageOrientation = System.Printing.PageOrientation.Portrait; else pd.PrintTicket.PageOrientation = System.Printing.PageOrientation.Landscape; if (_setPageSize) { var paperSize = getPaperSize(); pd.PrintTicket.PageMediaSize = FindPageMediaSize(paperSize); pd.PrintTicket.PageResolution = new PageResolution(PageQualitativeResolution.High); }

This print settings are not applied to the Windows 11 print preview. Is there any workaround, fix or something we could do?

Reproduction Steps

Assing different print settings to the PrintDialog:
PrintDialog pd = new PrintDialog(); pd.PrintQueue = SelectedPrinter; if (Orientation == 0) pd.PrintTicket.PageOrientation = System.Printing.PageOrientation.Portrait; else pd.PrintTicket.PageOrientation = System.Printing.PageOrientation.Landscape; if (_setPageSize) { var paperSize = getPaperSize(); pd.PrintTicket.PageMediaSize = FindPageMediaSize(paperSize); pd.PrintTicket.PageResolution = new PageResolution(PageQualitativeResolution.High); }

Expected behavior

The print preview is taking over the settings given by our application

Actual behavior

All settings are ignored!

Regression?

No response

Known Workarounds

No response

Configuration

.NET 4.8
Windows 11

Other information

No response

[huoyaoyuan]

PrintDialog is in dotnet/winforms repo.

Does this also reproduce with .NET 8?

[neplan]

I tried with .NET 7 and it's the same problem.

[merriemcgaw]

@JeremyKuhne I'm going to remove "untriaged" please feel free to put it back if you think we need to discuss as a team.

[merriemcgaw]

@neplan to set expectations, it is very difficult to get anything besides security fixes in for WinForms on .NET Framework. We will be looking into this for .NET 9 but I can't promise when precisely we'll fix it in .NET 9 or that a fix is coming in .NET Framework. The best thing about WinForms in .NET (as opposed to .NET Framework) is that since it is not part of the operating system, we do have more flexibility to make changes.

[wstaelens]

from a colleague and support desk: in Office (MS Word) when we want to print A4, the job is being sent as Letter. The A4 paper settings in MS Word are not respected/applied when chosen in print dialog of Word.
The settings are not being applied on Windows 11.

(.net framework 4.8 application)

What is the status of this @JeremyKuhne , @merriemcgaw ? Breaks a lot of print stuff also at customers!!!

[wstaelens]

Feels like this could be related: #8355

(see other tickets: dotnet/runtime#78629 )

[JeremyKuhne]

@wstaelens I'm looking into this.

[JeremyKuhne]

Sorry, I didn't see the sample code. This is in the WPF PrintDialog, not the Windows Forms Print Dialog.

 PrintDialog pd = new PrintDialog();
 pd.PrintQueue = SelectedPrinter;
 if (Orientation == 0) pd.PrintTicket.PageOrientation = System.Printing.PageOrientation.Portrait;
 else pd.PrintTicket.PageOrientation = System.Printing.PageOrientation.Landscape;
 if (_setPageSize)
 {
   var paperSize = getPaperSize(); pd.PrintTicket.PageMediaSize = FindPageMediaSize(paperSize);
   pd.PrintTicket.PageResolution = new PageResolution(PageQualitativeResolution.High);
 }