printing with iText

[Stan F Smith]

Hello,

has anyone been aboe to print a pdf with iText without displaying the pdf?
I have tried several example such as:

  Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50, 50);
try {
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("c://test.pdf"));
document.open();
PdfAction jAction = PdfAction.javaScript("this.print(true);\r", writer);
writer.addJavaScript(jAction);
document.add(new Paragraph("Page 1"));
}
catch (Exception de) {
de.printStackTrace();
}
document.close()

which does not error but also does ot print.

can anyone help with this?

[Ulf Dittmer]

What this code does is not to print anything, but to add JavaScript code that potentially prints something to the document. Without opening the PDF with a PDF reader that interprets JavaScript (not all do), nothing could possibly be printed.

[Stan F Smith]

Thank you,

Can you please assit me with how I would then print a pdf that i currently have as a ByteArrayOutputStream?

Thanks again.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The PDFBox library can print PDFs.

[Stan F Smith]

Thanks I will try that out.

So to be clear I cant do it with regular java or the iText lib?

Thanks again

[Ulf Dittmer]

You can do it with the standard Java printing API if you have a printer/driver combination that understands PDFs; not all do.

iTest is for creating and manipulating PDFs; it does not include a PDF interpreter.

[Stan F Smith]

Thanks,

I will give it a shot.

[Stan F Smith]

As I am sure you already knew it worked!

Thanks for taking the time to help out, people really appreciate it.