silent printing

headsy

I am looking for assistance in creating a small ghostscript or component that will allow for pdfs to be downloaded from a website and send to the printer without loading acroat. This tool also need to be available for Mac & pc.

Can anyone help ?

Trampas

We use a s/w called silent print in work

headsy

Would that mean that each user would have to buy this software and install it on their machine beforehand ? i think it cost £249. I am looking to do this over the web. So if user needs to download & install files it needs to be something that can be distributed free.

headsy

Would that mean that each user would have to buy this software and install it on their machine beforehand ? i think it cost £249. I am looking to do this over the web. So if user needs to download & install files it needs to be something that can be distributed free.

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Graphics/Adobe_Acrobat/Q_20841450.html

Foxit reader might be worth a look too /p doesn't seem to work but it's so much smaller than acrobat
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?f=3
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/foxitreader/foxitreader.zip = 1.1 MB !

headsy

I have found something that appears to silently print. I am not sure of how to apply it. but I have have listed a link to an example. If anyone can help in explaining how to make this work I would appreciate it.



DEMO:
http://blowagie.users.mcs2.netarray.com/servlet/silentprint

SERVLET:
http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/examples/com/lowagie/examples/general/webapp/SilentPrintServlet.java

Brief description
http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/general/webapp/index.html#silentprint


EXTRACT FROM
https://vineetreynolds.wordpress.com/2005/12/12/silent-print-a-pdf-print-pdf-programmatically/

There is however an easier but hack ‘n slash way to do it; use a document level JavaScript print action [ for more information have a look at the Adobe Acrobat JavaScript Guide(pdf) and Reference(pdf) ]. The print action is to execute on any valid action - usually a page action. But remember, JavaScript with Acrobat Reader can be disabled by the user. And it is impossible to close Acrobat Reader [not the opened document] after the print is finished - you’ll need to “deliberately crash” Reader after the print is done. And if the PDF file opens in a browser window [ on account of the Acrobat Reader BHO], then you can forget about trying to close the PDF document in a programmatic manner. One of the iText examples shows how a servlet could be written to achieve this. Try a demo here! and make sure you run it in different browsers under different settings (for example : Win XP with SP 2 and without SP2), to understand the varying functionality that it provides. Golden rule to be respected in any software : Never make it behave inconsistently; your users could have trouble describing their problems.

Capt'n Midnight

headsy wrote:

you’ll need to “deliberately crash” Reader after the print is done.

get pstools from www.sysinternals.com

pskill AcroRd32

headsy

Capt. thanks for the lead. Is that restricted to windows or would it work accross platforms