Printing in IE

[Vijay]

Hi,

I have a web-form in ASP.NET that displays a table
containing a set of <a href...."> tags. Each of these tags
point to different documents(.doc, .xls, .pdf, etc) on the
server.

I want to give the user a functionality by which the user
can print all these documents on the client-side by
clicking a button on the web-form without having to open
up each document to print.

Is this possible and how?

Thanks in advance.
- Vijay

[Richard K Bethell]

"Vijay" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a web-form in ASP.NET that displays a table
containing a set of <a href...."> tags. Each of these tags
point to different documents(.doc, .xls, .pdf, etc) on the
server.

I want to give the user a functionality by which the user
can print all these documents on the client-side by
clicking a button on the web-form without having to open
up each document to print.

Is this possible and how?

Not in a way that uses their client to do it. The only way I can see your
scenario working is if all users are on an Intranet, and you have detailed
knowledge in the application of their network topology (i.e. where printers
are located, etc.) You could then set up a bit of an application server to
load up any documents requested, and control Word, Excel, Acrobat, etc. to
print to the printer closest to them.

R.

[Vijay]

Richard,

The users of my application is not just limited to
intranet users, we also have quite a lot of extranet users
conneting from their home. Is there some other way to do
this? Maybe, by embedding some client-side scripts? Ideas?

Thanks!
Vijay

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"Vijay" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:0c****************************@phx.gbl...

Hi,

I have a web-form in ASP.NET that displays a table
containing a set of <a href...."> tags. Each of these tags point to different documents(.doc, .xls, .pdf, etc) on the server.

I want to give the user a functionality by which the user can print all these documents on the client-side by
clicking a button on the web-form without having to open
up each document to print.

Is this possible and how?
Not in a way that uses their client to do it. The only

way I can see yourscenario working is if all users are on an Intranet, and you have detailedknowledge in the application of their network topology (i.e. where printersare located, etc.) You could then set up a bit of an application server toload up any documents requested, and control Word, Excel, Acrobat, etc. toprint to the printer closest to them.

R.
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