Actually, this is available. It is possible to embed javascript inside a PDF. It depends on what you're using to generate the PDF however. I'm sure Acrobat can do it. There a library called iText which can. I think it can even go into an already created PDF and insert the necessary JS. We use a product called pdflib (not free). By inserting PDF javascript you can get a PDF document to print silently (no print dialog). The trick being you have to somehow open the PDF first. In our app we just have a print link that generates a PDF and spits it to the printer without the user having to even see the document first. We just load the PDF into a hidden IFRAME and on the document load the embedded javascript calls the print command.
Do some research on JS for PDFs. It's been a while since I've dealt with that code, so I'm a bit rusty on it. Also it can be a bit cumbersome to get it working the way you want it, depending on your exact usecase. But it may be just what you're looking for. Good luck. Joel Martijn Dashorst wrote: > > Just think about it for 1 minute why this isn't available... (anwser > below). > > Martijn > > > > Spam is of all ages, I figure that even in the clay tablet era people > would create ads for enlargements of various body parts (just use a > bigger nail!). So before e-mail was the prevalent means of spreading > ads, the fax machine (documents sent through the phone line in an > analog/copier type of fashion) was churning out forrests of (unwanted) > ads. > > Now imagine a website hosted by Nigerian/Russian/Chinese/Dutch > spammers. They would *love* a way to directly print documents without > interventioni on the user's part. > > -- > Wicket joins the Apache Software Foundation as Apache Wicket > Apache Wicket 1.3.0-beta2 is released > Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0-beta2/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Can-we-do-straight-print-in-a-java-web-application--tf4289452.html#a12235547 Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
