"Mark Rae [MVP]" <ma**@markNOSPAMrae.netwrote in message
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"George" <no*****@comcast.netwrote in message
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>>Which, unless it has been updated since I last looked at it, doesn't
actually support printing.
>????
It generates PDF....
Yes it does, but that's not what the OP asked...
>What do you mean does not support printing?
By "support printing" I mean "contain the functionality to send a PDF to a
printer's print queue and kick off that print job automatically" - what on
earth did you think I meant...?
>Printing is Adobe's jobe once PDF is created...
LOL! So someone has to constantly monitor a folder for new PDF documents
and then print them manually? That's not going to help the OP much...
There are plenty of 3rd-party PDF generation utilities which support
printing - iTextSharp doesn't...
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Mark Rae
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Have no idea what are you talking about... What printer's queue. What folder
to monitor.
The way i am using it: 1. generate PDF (stream) and 2. output it to
browser....
Then user looks at pretty report in PDF format, then prints it if he likes
it or saves it to his harddrive. And as i understood this is what guy
asked... how to generate PDF report and (may be i implied since it's ASP.NET
group) to show it on client side.
No folders to monitor. Since PDF never actually made into real file. It's
written into Response stream as it generates.
Also printing becomes customer's headache. May be he does not even have
printer and he wants to email it.
PS: printing PDF is easy use this command AcroRd32.exe /p /h "filename"
But it needs to be run on client and i do not see how to do it from ASP.NET
George
