PDFBox printing issue

Hello,
We are trying to use PDFBox to open a print dialog box using a stream. I works, however the dialog box that opens is actually on the server.
Has anyone used this before and managed to get it to work?

Thanks

Well of course it's going to open on the server, that's where the software is running.

If you want users to be able to get the file on their own systems you'll need to stream the PDF as a response to a request.

Thanks Bear,

I dont suppose you could point me to an example?

Thanks

The servlets forum likely has many examples of streaming binary data.

Essentially, you will set the content headers (content-type and content-disposition) and then write the bytes out to the response output stream.

Here's an example from the Ranch's FAQ: http://www.coderanch.com/how-to/java/ImageServlet. It looks like it's talking about images but if you scroll down a bit you'll see how it can be used to stream any file to the browser. (Including PDF of course.)

It doesn't tell you how to write that PDF so that it pops up a print dialog when it opens in the browser, but maybe that's already been done. And I don't know if that was your question anyway.

Thanks,
That URL example doesn't seem to open.
I am using wicket not servlets, would it work the same way?

Thanks again