TPrintPreview is a descendent of TScrollBox and has properties of both TScrollBox component and TPrinter class. The key features of TPrintPreview are:



Automatically adjusts printer s paper size and orientation at the print time

Automatically adjusts mapping modes

Preview pages can be scaled with an arbitrarily zoom factor

Shows prepared pages while the new pages are still in progress to be prepared

Displayed pages can be scrolled by mouse dragging

Pages can be saved/restored to/from disk

Each page is accessible as a Windows MetaFile image

Regardless of number of previewed pages and their complexity, only consumes a small portion of Windows resources

Easy to use for printing rich text and graphics

Has a complete set of events

Has a complementary control to show thumbnail pages

Lets drawing of annotation and background on the preview pages.