Improving clarity of images in PictureBox C# - c#

I have Panel on windows form containing labels for displaying information and 2 PictureBox controls. One for Company logo & other for captured photo. When i print them either on Printer or just save in PDF format, both images looking very blur. I want to improve quality of images. So they will appear clear even after zoom.
Any suggestion.

You can set this property of the Graphics object.
// g is type of Graphics.
g.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.High;

I don't know which technique you are using for printing but if you are using print form it is not good for decent picture or text. Therefore when you send form/PictureBox to the print object it would lose quality.The Solution is to use PrintDocument.
Share your code for more help.

Your printer has better resolution than your monitor. That bitmap won't work. You will have to recreate the print items directly on the e.Graphics of the PrintPageEventArgs.
Other work around is the technique that guy explain in his article.
http://www.dahuatu.com/3vy2K5z5mr.html

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Winforms: Capture part of PDF image to OCR

This is a C# winforms question.
The process I am trying to achieve is the following:
Using AxAcroPDFLib I'm loading a pdf file to the form
I want the user to be able to specify a square on that PDF and create a bmp from it
That bmp will then be loaded to a OCR to become text
What is my issue:
Step 1 and 3 are easy to do, the problem is how to allow the user to draw a square on top of the AxAcroPDFLib for a screenshot.
I already got different ways to draw squares on native winform components, but AxAcroPDFLib does not support mouse down, up, move, etc and paint events.
There is the option to convert the PDF to bitmap and display it on a picturebox and deal with events for drawing the square. Problem with that approach is that my PDF's are usually more than two pages, and I would like to avoid the conversion pdf to bmp due to changes to image quality that will impact on OCR.
I came to think that maybe something that works as the windows snippingtool would do the the job. My application would get the screenshot, temporarily save the image on disk (must be a file for OCR), I would then pass it to the OCR and done. Hard part, I could not think on how to take the screenshot of part of the PDF.
Do anyone here have any suggestion to different components or workarounds to deal with the requirement above? I am using Adobe just because it is simple, but maybe there are other components better suited to handle my requirements? I googled but haven't found any free ones, trying to avoid paid options.
Thanks
At some point in this process, the PDF is going to have to be rasterized in order to be passed to the OCR, so I don't totally understand your objection to converting it to a bitmap. If you're okay with Snipping Tool's behavior, then you must be OK with the quality of the PDF control's PDF->screen rasterization. If that resolution is acceptable, why not just capture the control's content to a Bitmap and let the user draw the selection marquee over that Bitmap?
Here is code I'm using to capture a control's contents to a Bitmap in Windows Forms. One caveat is that this is really a screen capture, so any windows or controls that overlap the control's visible area will be captured in the image.
using (Bitmap b = new Bitmap(width, height))
{
using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(b))
{
Point p1 = myControl.PointToScreen(new Point(0, 0));
g.CopyFromScreen(p1.X, p1.Y, 0, 0, size);
}
// do stuff here with your Bitmap
}

How to print panel with windows form

I need to print a panel(with many subpanel like tablepanellayout) in windows form.
I have seen many solutions such as draw as bitmap with capture screen - that give me correct form but my text and image is very blurred or draw by access all controls in that panels and draw by string or bitmap , it okays but I think it must have better solution.
Thx for read my problem and very thx for giving me a nice solution.
if you dont like the approach of bitmap image. what can be done is use of reportviewer and design the content you want to print. and Pass on the Data to the report viewer. there you can have the flexibity to print as well as export to other formats.
A Sample can be found in the following link to get started.
Click on this Link

How to create an image with multiple tiles in the background?

I would like to know how I can create one image from many. I would like to create a tile in my windows phone application like in this image (specifically, the People tile):
(source: addictivetips.com)
I have nine pictures, and I would create an image, that I will add like tile to background. Does anybody know how can I create an image that looks like the one in that picture?
I have very little experience in this space, but have you considered creating a control that simply displays up to 9 pictures side by side in a grid like that? You then can bind each image independently & change them out however you want. This article touches on how to bind phontos in WP7 nicely:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh286418(v=vs.92).aspx
If you're talking about assembling an actual graphic image like a jpeg or bitmap, you'll need to look at the Image Class, Bitmap Class, and Graphics Class. Essentially you'll need to implement the following steps:
Load the relevant images with From method in Image, typically Image.FromFile.
Determine how many rows and columns you'll be using.
Calculate the total width and height for your layout using the widths and heights of the loaded images with appropriate padding added.
Create a new Bitmap of the appropriate size with the correct background color and iamge format.
Have variables for the current drawing location (x & y).
Have variables for the current row and column in your layout.
In a loop, Create your Graphics object.
Use Graphics.DrawImage to add your loaded image to the layout bitmap.
Increment your drawing row and or column as appropriate.
Calculate your new drawing location.
Repeat until done.
One of the options is to use WriteableBitmapEx
Also you can probably find an answer to your question here: How can I merge two images into one?

Draw a bitmap from a control taller than the screen

I am having quite a few problems saving a C# control to a bitmap file. The control in question is a kind of drawing surface on which the user can write text, draw pictures and paint boxes. The control is resizable and draggable. What happen is, when the control is really big and is not totally visible on the screen, the parts of the control not visible are saved half-drawn on the bitmap. The code used to generate the bitmap is quite simple:
Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(myControl.Width, myControl.Height);
myControl.DrawToBitmap(bitmap);
I have tried the following methods to try to have a fully painted bitmap, without any success:
myControl.Invalidate(myControl.ClientRectangle, true);
myControl.Refresh();
myControl.Update();
Application.DoEvents();
I cannot scale the control down to make it fully visible since resolution and image quality are very important for that project. In fact, I am actually trying to scale the image up to increase it's quality. Are there ways I am not aware of generating an image from a control ?
Tank you.
DrawToBitmap has limitations and dont always work as expected. Try instead work with native GDI+
Here is example
Maybe my answer here Capturing a Window that is hidden or minimized can help you?

Printing in C#/.NET, scaling on a whole page

I am wondering how to do the following ( couldn't get google to help me here ):
I got a .jpg file of about 250px*250px in scale..
I want this image on a DIN-A4 page as often as possible
I need an "overlay" for every image on the page with a unique code ( lets say a unique barcode for example )
How would i start here? I have really no idea which classes or methods to use for this...
Also it'd be interesting to know which "formats" i can create the documents in...
Thanks for any help!
Well, you know how big the image is, and how big the paper is, so it's easy to work out how many you can fit on a page.
Then you'll want to create an instance if the Bitmap class from your jpg, then get a Graphics object from the bitmap, call the Graphics object's DrawString method with your text (plus a font, a brush, and a point). Remember to release the Graphics object or, ideally, wrap it in a using statement.Then, as Henk says, use a PrintDocument to print it - there's an example here of that - and write your images in as required to fill the page using the PrintPageEventArgs' Graphics object.

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