Margins Class
Specifies the dimensions of the margins of a printed page.
Assembly: System.Drawing (in System.Drawing.dll)
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Margins() | Initializes a new instance of the Margins class with 1-inch wide margins. |
![]() | Margins(Int32, Int32, Int32, Int32) | Initializes a new instance of the Margins class with the specified left, right, top, and bottom margins. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Clone() | Retrieves a duplicate of this object, member by member. |
![]() | Equals(Object^) | Compares this Margins to the specified Object to determine whether they have the same dimensions.(Overrides Object::Equals(Object^).) |
![]() | Finalize() | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetHashCode() | Calculates and retrieves a hash code based on the width of the left, right, top, and bottom margins.(Overrides Object::GetHashCode().) |
![]() | GetType() | |
![]() | MemberwiseClone() | |
![]() | ToString() | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Converts the Margins to a string.(Overrides Object::ToString().) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() ![]() | Equality(Margins^, Margins^) | Compares two Margins to determine if they have the same dimensions. |
![]() ![]() | Inequality(Margins^, Margins^) | Compares two Margins to determine whether they are of unequal width. |
The Margins class is used to manipulate the width of margins in PageSettings and PrintController. MarginsConverter is the type descriptor for this class.
Left, Right, Top, and Bottom are properties that define the margins. Clone creates an identical Margins. Equals determines if another object has the same dimensions as a Margins.
For more information about printing, see the System.Drawing.Printing namespace overview.
Use the System.Drawing, System.Drawing.Printing, and System.IO namespaces for this example.
The following code example sets the default page settings for a document to margins of 1 inch on each side.
void Printing() { try { /* This assumes that a variable of type string, named filePath, has been set to the path of the file to print. */ streamToPrint = gcnew StreamReader( filePath ); try { printFont = gcnew System::Drawing::Font( "Arial",10 ); PrintDocument^ pd = gcnew PrintDocument; /* This assumes that a method, named pd_PrintPage, has been defined. pd_PrintPage handles the PrintPage event. */ pd->PrintPage += gcnew PrintPageEventHandler( this, &Sample::pd_PrintPage ); /* This assumes that a variable of type string, named printer, has been set to the printer's name. */ pd->PrinterSettings->PrinterName = printer; // Create a new instance of Margins with one inch margins. Margins^ margins = gcnew Margins( 100,100,100,100 ); pd->DefaultPageSettings->Margins = margins; pd->Print(); } finally { streamToPrint->Close(); } } catch ( Exception^ ex ) { MessageBox::Show( String::Concat( "An error occurred printing the file - ", ex->Message ) ); } }
Available since 1.1
Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.




