It's possible to generate output for the printer with FOP, but it sounds
like you really have PDF and just want to get that to the printer. Right?
Look at CUPS - a quick google on cups+print+pdf will get you nearly all
you need.
In general, getting something to print is 90% a sysadmin issue involving
obscure interactions between the host OS and the printer, so you won't
find any complete recipe; you'll have to experiment.
Steve
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi I have tried with the "-print" command of fop. It says "Content not
allowed as input file" . Even i had gone through your embeded example it
also shows that the input file should be of extension *.fo . I have
googled a lot on printing pdf. There are so many threads in the forums on
the same. None had a solution. After so much of effort in googling then I
just came to try with fop as it generates pdf. But I think this does not
do what I want. So just thinking what could be done.
There are some command line pdf printing tools available commercially. And
also some java api. But I dont find any open source or some sort of free
tool for this.
I am specifically looking for some tool which does not require any user
intervention. It should not show any popup or dialouge boxes. It should
happen silently in the background.
Thanks And Regards,
Muralidhar Yaragalla.
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Have you tried the -print option just to see if that would be an option
for you? The experiment only takes you two minutes but might save you a
lot of trouble.
Options for printing PDF are:
- remote-control Adobe Acrobat using COM on Windows.
- GhostScript can print PDFs. I'm not sure what the automation grade
would be.
- There are various PDF tools on the internet that might help you here.
GIYF.
- Some (more expensive) printers support printing PDF directly.
On 25.01.2008 11:48:34 Muralidhar_YARAGALLA wrote:
Ya I think we cannot print the pdf documents with fop. It is only
possible
if you are generating pdf using fop. It takes the input file (which
cannot
be pdf) and renders that into various paginated output file but the
input
file will be processed and will be sent to the printer not the generated
output.
If I am wrong please correct me. If there is any way that i can print
already existing pdf kindly tell me.
Thanks And Regards,
Muralidhar Yaragalla.
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FOP has PDF generation capabilities but FOP cannot print PDF files (you
need a different tool for that). However, if it's only about printing
the generated document (I say document here, not PDF, because PDF is
just one possible output format of FOP), you can also use the
"PrintRenderer" which doesn't generate a PDF but uses Java2D/AWT to
print the document using Java's printing capabilities.
On the FOP command-line, this is the "-print" parameter. For embedded
use, have a look at:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/examples/embedding/java/embedding/ExampleFO2OldStylePrint.java?view=markup
Note to self and fop-devs: Since we're now on Java 1.4 we can/should
eventually switch over to using JPS.
On 25.01.2008 08:54:40 Muralidhar_YARAGALLA wrote:
Hi I know with fop we can generate PDF documents but can we print them
programatically without user intervention. I need to fetch the pdf
files
from a folder and i have to send them for printing. no pop up and no
user
intervention should be there. It should happen silently in the
background.
Can I do this fop.
Thanks And Regards,
Muralidhar Yaragalla.
Jeremias Maerki
Jeremias Maerki
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