Difficulty Printing

[Scott.Macmaster]

Everything I draw looks perfect and is aligned perfectly in the print preview but when I actually print things come out different.

For example, if I draw a rectangle using printableArea, I get a rectangle about 1/4" around the page in the print preview but when I print the right side of the rectangle is cut off.

After trying more stuff, I tried setting the margins to 1/2" and used MarginBounds instead of PrintableArea. Everything shows up nicely centered on the print preview but when I print everything is shifted right and down half an inch.

I thought what you do in the print preview is supposed to be the same as the actual print. Obviously not, I don't have a problem with writing code to check if I'm doing a print preview or an actual printing and adjust the locations I calculate accordingly but I need to know what's going on the adjust my calculations. I have yet to see a pattern. Are my calculations automatically shifted by the printable area? the margin? something else?

Can someone explain what's going on?


Thanks,
Scott MacMaster