Send PDF using command line direct to the printer

Rennur

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:32 pm by Support
PRINT DOCUMENT command works on the server. There is no way to invoke CLIENT's printing from the server. There is no technology to do that.

There is technology to silent print PDF document via command line.

Verypdf& Foxit PDF Reader have this feature.
You'd have to map network printer (printer attached to the client PC) on the Aware Server machine and using a AIM process and EXECUTE PROGRAM eg.

EXECUTE PROGRAM 'C:\Program Files\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\Foxit Reader.exe' /t 'c:\docs\myDocument.pdf' \\192.168.0.1\myPrinter-Name'

This should print the PDF directly on the client's printer (myPrinter-Name) without displaying any dialog.

For multiple clients in LAN environment, the tricky part would be identifying which printer to send the document to.
Has anyone attempted to implement silent printing a PDF on a client PC?

ACDC

Your solution seems to be ideal. I would store the location of the printer in the user settings and then let your process pull this in at time of the print process.

You could also set up a drop down list of the available print queues on the server, so the user can select which print queue to print to

ACDC

something like :

EXECUTE PROGRAM 'C:\Program Files\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\Foxit Reader.exe' /t 'c:\docs\myDocument.pdf' \<<LoggedInRegularUser.PrinterAddress>>'

Rennur

This might prove to be an essential requirement for my app. I will try to implement this in the coming weeks. If anyone attempts to implement this, please post any successes and/or failures.

Also, Chrome browser allows printing without displaying the printing dialogue. It will silent print on client printer that's currently set up in Chrome's print settings.

The feature was developed for POS type apps for quick printing of receipts.
The Chrome browser needs to be set to --kiosk --kiosk-printing.

This means that when Chrome launches it’ll launch in full-screen mode (without that annoying “Press F11 to exit full-screen” message everytime your cursor is near the top of the screen) and when you press CTRL-P or call Javascript’s “window.print();” function or AwareIM's PRINT FORM function it will print the page without needing your user to confirm that print action.

http://drziegler.net/kiosksilent-printing-in-google-chrome/

http://support.vendhq.com/entries/21006382-Enable-kiosk-silent-printing-for-Google-Chrome-on-Windows-Video-

Cheers

Rennur

Am I correct to assume that in AwareIM 5.8, the PRINT DOCUMENT Document TO 'Network Printer 1' 2 COPIES is based on this concept.

Can the names of network printers be stored in a systemsettings attribute like ACDC suggested and used with this function?