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[Kerplunk]

Is it possible to set a link in a web page to print a document when clicked? I do not want the document to open, just print.

Thanks for any help.

[OBonio]

Here ya go :

http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/scripts/script3.asp

It's more JavaScript than HTML though.

[Kerplunk]

Thanks for the reply, but I don't want to print the current page being displayed I want to print a pdf file preferably without opening it in the browser.

[OBonio]

I don't think you can do that, sorry.

[Kerplunk]

Yeah, as I thought. Something I have been asked to do, but have never seen it done. They don't like it when you say it isn't possible.

[Pinotage]

That'd means when the user clicks on it, the PDF would have to download, and then they'd need a print routine that'd recognise and be able to print a PDF.

Usually you have a PDF viewer installed, that opens the document and then interfaces with the windows print routine.

Good problem, I'm interested if anyone has a solution. But how do you know your user will be able to open PDFs?

[Kerplunk]

Because they have Acrobat reader installed !

[Marsh]

I know very little about programming (Hello, world!) but could you Open then Hide an Acrobat window, tell it to print the document and then Close it � still out of sight of the end-user? The visible effect would be much the same.

[fo3nix]

this cannot be done, in general.

perhaps it's possible with VBScript, but this only runs on internet explorer. may be ok in a corporate environment that uses IE only, though. but i'm not even sure it's possible with VBScript (I doubt it, actually).