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Print a report w/o opening

  • March 28, 2006 at 2:32 pm

    #111504

    I want the user to click a button in Vb.net which should just print the pdf version of the report w/o actually opening it.

    Is it possible?

  • March 28, 2006 at 3:27 pm

    #629310

    You can use the web services to return a byte stream for the rendered report. You'd then have tohave appropriate print logic in your application to turn this byte stream into something the printer can interpret.

     

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  • March 29, 2006 at 5:17 am

    #629443

    older versions of Adobe reader supported a command line /t, so you could call acrord32.exe with the proper command line parameters in order to print and then kill adobe reader;

    this link has a substantial discussion and two coding examples of how to do it yourself instead of shelling out to  the OS:

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

     

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