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Brass Contributor

Sep 05, 2019

Printing API for Desktop apps hosting Edge's WebView

Hi, does Edge team have plans to provide/expose an API to control printing functionality, something similar to https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/aa753279(v=vs.90) and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...

Former Employee

Sep 08, 2019

noseratio, I have sent an email asking the team that own this what their plans are. I will respond back when I hear something. Thanks - Elliot

Brass Contributor

Sep 08, 2019

Elliot Kirk Thanks! That'd be a very useful feature for corporate applications that IE always has had, unlike Chrome.

liminzhu
Microsoft
Sep 18, 2019
noseratio thanks for bringing this up! Today we support printing in WebView2 (I assume you're asking about this - https://aka.ms/webview) through calling the web API `window.print()`. See similar issue and code sample on GitHub - https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebViewFeedback/issues/7#issuecomment-505971520, and let me know if this works for you.
- noseratio
  Brass Contributor
  Sep 18, 2019
  liminzhu thanks for replying. Unfortunately, window.print() is so much less than Internet Explorer's WebBrowser hosting has to offer for printing. With IE, we had full control over pagination etc with https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/aa753280(v=vs.90). There's nothing like that in Edge. I suppose we'll have to pursue other options like PDF.
  - liminzhu
    Microsoft
    Sep 18, 2019
    noseratio if there is something you need that window.open() cannot provide, we're definitely open to take that feedback and look into supporting it. Specifically about templates, @media (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media) is a potential way to programmatically style your printing.

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