Printing the Infragistics XamDataGrid (or other DataPresenterBase object) to PDF

In a two-step process, I was able to get Infragistics’ XamDatagrid (or any of their controls that implement DataPresenterBase) to PDF.

1. Download GhostScript’s GhostPDL for windows (I got it from here).
2. Use Infragistics’ Report Object to output an XPS (supported functionality)
3. User GhostPDL to convert the XPS document to PDF
4. Delete the temporary XPS document

Here’s the method I used successfully:

public void GeneratePdf(DataPresenterBase dataPresenterBase, string filePath) {
    dataPresenterBase.AutoFit = true;
    var reportObj = new Report();
    reportObj.Sections.Add(new EmbeddedVisualReportSection(dataPresenterBase));
    reportObj.ReportSettings.Margin = new Thickness(5, 5, 5, 5);
    reportObj.ReportSettings.PageOrientation = PageOrientation.Landscape;
    reportObj.ReportSettings.PageSize = NorthAmerica11X17;
    reportObj.ReportSettings.HorizontalPaginationMode = HorizontalPaginationMode.Scale;
    var xpsTempFile = filePath.Replace(“.pdf”, “.xps”);
    reportObj.Export(OutputFormat.XPS, xpsTempFile, false);
    dataPresenterBase.AutoFit = false;

    var p = new Process {
        StartInfo = {
            UseShellExecute = false,
            CreateNoWindow = true,
            RedirectStandardOutput = true,
            FileName = @”gxps-871.exe”,
            Arguments = string.Format(“-sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=\”{0}\” -dNOPAUSE \”{1}\””, filePath, xpsTempFile)
        }
    };
    p.Start();
    p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
    p.WaitForExit();
    File.Delete(xpsTempFile);
}

Hope this helps!