Hello Everyone,
I have created a PDF file using CFFILE and now
I'd like to print a pdf file directly to a printer (or at
least without human intervention).
Thanks in advance.
The server is only going to be able to print to printers of
which the
server is aware. You can not automatically print to a
client's printer,
that would be a really horrible thing if HTTP allowed this.
There are some activeX controls that may do this for Windows
OS systems,
but the users will have to agree to install them.
But generally this is not a good idea for a server client
system.
Note to Ian, in an intranet environment it's a conceivable
job. In fact one of my current projects involves "no prompt
printing". Unfortunately for Shikha, I'm not printing pdfs so what
I did might not work for you.
But it might give you some ideas. My approach was to write a
batch file that launched notepad in minimized state on the server.
Notepad would then print the text file I had created to the
server's default printer.
Maybe Ian will be nice and give you a hint on how to find
those active x controls.
I know Acrobat does have some scripting interfaces, but
unfortunately I'm not that familiar with them. You could try doing
a serach for instantiating the Acrobat software as a COM
object.
You might want to check out iText. A version of iText is
already installed with Coldfusion MX 7, so installing the latest
version on the server may not be necessary. The link is located
below. Review the section entitled, 'Silent printing'. Again, a
version of iText.jar is already on the server, so try the code
first, and if it doesn't necessarily work, then you'll have to
install the latest version for best results.
Link:
http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/general/webapp/index.html#silentprint
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