Printing a PDF on client side

Hi,

I have a PDF file on server side and I want that to be printed on client side, is there any way to print the file which exists on server to client side. Is it possible with javascript. If anyone knows could you help me regarding this.

Thank You.

You need to open up the file and call window.print().

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Eric

Hi Eric, Thanks for your reply.

But I don't want to open the file on client side, I want to give the server side generated PDf file to the client side printer directly. That means for me the file will be created and placed on server side and I want to send that file to the printer that was configured on client side without opening the file.

If you read what I said on my blog, you HAVE to open it to print it with JavaScript.

Eric

A signed applet would be an alternative.

Hi Bear Bibeault, Thanks for your reply.
If you have any sample code could you post it.

I do not. If that is the route you are interested in pursuing, let me know and I will move this post to the Applets forum.

Yes Bibeault, if I can get solution in applet forum please move this to applet forum.

Thank you.

If you're using a UNIX server,
and if that server can access the client's printer via an Internet Printing Protocol (possible in an intranet configuration), you can use CUPS (using it's Ghostscript interface) to directly send PDF files to your client's printer.

That is how our ERP system prints graphical documents to our printer:
The printers have a fixed ip address, and are reachable from our unix server.
On the unix server, all our printers have their own print queue.
The reporting system generates pdf files, and sends the file to the appropriate print queue on the unix server.

Regards, Jan