Question abt itext silent printing

[SVD]

Hi ,

 

I have couple of  questions about itext silent printing.

 

1.Can we give the printer details like printer name and tray in the pdf generation? Can you provide some code sample for this.

2. Is it possible in itext to print on the client printer? I have a requirement that when client clicks on print link it should print to the client printer with out showing print dialogue.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Sammy

 

 

 

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SVD wrote:
> 1.Can we give the printer details like printer name and tray in the pdf
> generation? Can you provide some code sample for this.

Do you know what the P in PDF stands for?
It stands for Portable; adding printer details would break
a PDFs portability. In the past there have been ways to
work around this, but they are discouraged.

> 2. Is it possible in itext to print on the client printer? I have a
> requirement that when client clicks on print link it should print to the
> client printer with out showing print dialogue.

Silent printing is possible with iText:
http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=266
BUT!!! As is explained in the iText book, silent printing
is a security hazard, and after the book was published Adobe
rightfully changed its policy and recent versions of Reader
demands user interaction before the document is printed.
In other words: you can't prevent the print dialogue to be
shown in recent versions of Adobe Reader.

Note that everything I say above is true regardless from
whether or not you are using iText.
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This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA

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[SVD]

I am sorry, If I am nagging you all with this topic. But, we have a requirement to generate a pdf and store it in the specified directory and  silent printing to a named printer which may o may not be a default printer. I tried IText example for silent printing and it works fine and always prints to the default printer. I heard that using java script you can specify the printer name for silent printing.

 

And I tried it with no luck. Here is my code

 

StringBuffer javascript = new StringBuffer();

javascript.append("var params= this.getPrintParams();");

javascript.append("params.interactive=params.constants.interactionLevel.silent;");

javascript.append("params.pageHandling =params.constants.handling.shrink;");

javascript.append("params.printername = \\\\ServerName\\PrinterName;");

javascript.append("this.print(params);");

writer.addJavaScript(javascript.toString(),false);

 

 

Can you please help with this. It's kind of a urgent requirement.

 

Thanks!

1T3XT info <info@...> wrote:

SVD wrote:
> 1.Can we give the printer details like printer name and tray in the pdf
> generation? Can you provide some code sample for this.

Do you know what the P in PDF stands for?
It stands for Portable; adding printer details would break
a PDFs portability. In the past there have been ways to
work around this, but they are discouraged.

> 2. Is it possible in itext to print on the client printer? I have a
> requirement that when client clicks on print link it should print to the
> client printer with out showing print dialogue.

Silent printing is possible with iText:
http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/browse/?page=example&id=266
BUT!!! As is explained in the iText book, silent printing
is a security hazard, and after the book was published Adobe
rightfully changed its policy and recent versions of Reader
demands user interaction before the document is printed.
In other words: you can't prevent the print dialogue to be
shown in recent versions of Adobe Reader.

Note that everything I say above is true regardless from
whether or not you are using iText.
--
This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA

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