<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<script>
function printpdf(pdf_path) {
// remove the previous pdf <object> if existed
var elem = document.getElementById("pdf");
if (elem) {
elem.parentNode.removeChild(elem);
}
document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeEnd', '<object id="pdf" classid="clsid:CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000" width="0" height="0"><param name="src" value="' + pdf_path + '"/></object>');
pdf.printAll();
return false;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/975652/silent-print-a-embedded-pdf -->
<button onclick="printpdf('sample.pdf');">Print PDF</button>
</body>
</html>
I put it in my dropbox as well: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/48348/pdf/pdf.html (put dropbox domain into trusted sites)
EDIT: Adobe Reader 8 was reported to leave a blank Adobe Reader application running whenever you click, then version 11 doesn't have this problem.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Click a button to print an embedded PDF file without the printing dialog in Internet Explorer (silent print)
I recently helped a friend implementing a button to click, and it sends a hosted pdf to the defaulted printer without the printing dialog in IE8. I googled this about a few dozen pages and finally came across http://stackoverflow.com/questions/975652/silent-print-a-embedded-pdf. So here is the test.html. And due to the ActiveX used, you have to make this page to be trusted or in intranet.
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printAll() ??
I am sure there're some other methods to call besides printAll() if you have other requirements.
Thank you, but this only works in internet explorer, do you have a Chrome solution? Edge?
Googled this today (5/11/2017) and found a link to
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/JJNzUxxtMio
talking about a chrome command line option " --disable-print-preview" or "--kiosk --kiosk-printing" (no idea what kiosk is though)
Thank you, for what I have seen in chrome to disable print preview is only possible with the kioske mode, I can not find any way to do it programatically..
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