printing documents in the client side

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By: mozart - mozart_sk8

printing documents in the client side

2004-09-02 03:12

Good afternoon, I'm having problems with regards to printing of documents in the client side. This is what happend. I have developed a report generator. The problem is that it seems that it tries to print on the serverside what I want is that I want my documents to be printed on the clientside. Do I have to implement my application in applet? so that the document can be printed in the client side and not on the serverside. I would really appreciate if someone could help me

 

 

 

 

By: mozart - mozart_sk8

RE: printing documents in the client side

2004-09-02 04:59

do you a sample code on how to do this? I would really appreciate if you could share it with me

 

 

 

 

By: Juby Victor - jubyvictor

RE: printing documents in the client side

2004-09-02 05:13

OutputStream opPDFStream = (ByteArrayOutputStream)new ByteArrayOutputStream(); JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfStream(jasperPrint,opPDFStream);

request.getSession().setAttribute("certificatePDF",opPDFStream);

 

 

the jsp that will print the stuff will be

 

 

<%@ page import="java.io.*"%><%

response.setContentType( "application/pdf" );

 

StringBuffer sbFilename = new StringBuffer();

sbFilename.append("generatedPDf_");

sbFilename.append(System.currentTimeMillis());

sbFilename.append(".pdf");

 

StringBuffer sbContentDispValue = new StringBuffer();

sbContentDispValue.append("inline");

sbContentDispValue.append("; filename=");

sbContentDispValue.append(sbFilename);

 

ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = (ByteArrayOutputStream)session.getAttribute("certificatePDF");

DataOutput output = new DataOutputStream( response.getOutputStream() );

byte[] bytes = buffer.toByteArray();

 

response.setHeader(

"Content-disposition",

sbContentDispValue.toString());

response.setContentLength(bytes.length);

for( int i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++ ) { output.writeByte( bytes ); }

%>

 

 

 

 

By: mozart - mozart_sk8

RE: printing documents in the client side

2004-09-02 21:59

correct me if I'm wrong if I'm going to analyze the source codes it seems that first the reports will be displayed in the pdf format and from there we can print already the document. Am I right? If I am, that's not what I want, what I want is that I have a page in my browser then once I want to print my documents it will print right away in my printer. I dont want to open the pdf file and once the file is open I still have to click the print button. I would really appreciate if you could help me again

 

tnx

 

 

 

 

By: Juby Victor - jubyvictor

RE: printing documents in the client side

2004-09-02 04:30

You can create a pdfStream and then put it into the sesssion , and then use the stream from the client side, hth

 

 

 

 

By: Chetan - someone_genius

RE: printing documents in the client side

2004-10-18 23:10

Hello

 

I am doing is this way.

 

Geting HTML output as BufferString. Printing same in a hidden frame and then printing hidden frame.

 

It is working fine here and I guess this is the only solution.

 

Reg,

Chetan