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Hello I have a PDF file and I want to print it when I click on a button of my rails application. I also want, if it is possible, to be possible the user choose the printer to be used. |
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Probably with JavaScript. In many browsers, window.print() will display the system Print dialog, exactly as if the user had chosen the browser’s Print command. |
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I don’t think it’s possible to be honest. PDF files rely on external viewer apps. Any viewers that work in the browser are probably because your viewer supports viewing through ActiveX or something simmilar. Either way you can’t not use JavaScript. The only way that might work, which is a hacky kludge is to use an iframe created with javascript and then call the print() method for that frame from the host frame/page. |
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