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Re: Question abt itext silent printing
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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.
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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