Hi, Sometimes (or even most often as is the case in the hospital where I'm currently coding for), there is a need to print immediately reports in for example PDF format, without first showing the same in a viewer (i.e. Acrobat Viewer in our example) and then requesting a manual print from the user.
Oracle has a small free application (do a search on Google for "ORARRP" to find it), that permits automatic printing without preview at the client side for popular document formats (PDF, RTF, DOC and I think also PostScript). The utility registers some new MIME types at the client's machine, for instance a MIME type with extension ".RRPA" for PDF's. So, if the server presents a download of for instance "myreport.rrpa" to a client (where "myreport.rrpa" is simply "myreport.pdf" with extension changed), the utility has the report printed in background using API calls to Acrobat Viewer, without showing the viewer window. I think it may be a very handy tool for fellow programmers, there are some problems with it also we found out: 1. You have to install it at the client machines - but nevertheless you have to do that also for the viewer software (Acrobat Viewer for PDF, Word for DOC etc.), and you can always provide a download link for it in your application. 2. If you send two reports one after another, part or whole of the first report gets lost... 3. Problems on XP client machines were reported as the user has no administrative rights on his machine... we think there are problems with access rights to the locally downloaded copy of the file; we did not have time to investigate this further... Regards, Alberto A. Smulders HostDat Lda. - Portugal -- "Feel free" – 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail _______________________________________________ ULC-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/ulc-developer
