How to send a PDF file directly to the printer using JavaScript?
I found two answers in a forum:
<embed src="vehinvc.pdf" id = "Pdf1" name="Pdf1" hidden>
<a onClick="document.getElementById('Pdf1').printWithDialog()" style="cursor:hand;">Print file</a>
and
<OBJECT id = "Pdf2" name="Pdf2" CLASSID="clsid:CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000" WIDTH="364" HEIGHT="290">
<PARAM NAME='SRC' VALUE="file.pdf">
</OBJECT>
<a onClick="document.Pdf2.printWithDialog()">Print file</a>
But my problem is that it just works on IE, and doesnt work in Firefox or Chrome.
Is there any solution for this?
I think this Library of JavaScript might Help you:
It's called Print.js
First Include
<script src="print.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="print.css">
It's basic usage is to call printJS() and just pass in a PDF document url: printJS('docs/PrintJS.pdf')
What I did was something like this, this will also show "Loading...." if PDF document is too large.
<button type="button" onclick="printJS({printable:'docs/xx_large_printjs.pdf', type:'pdf', showModal:true})">
Print PDF with Message
</button>
However keep in mind that:
Firefox currently doesn't allow printing PDF documents using iframes. There is an open bug in Mozilla's website about this. When using Firefox, Print.js will open the PDF file into a new tab.
There are two steps you need to take.
First, you need to put the PDF in an iframe.
<iframe id="pdf" name="pdf" src="document.pdf"></iframe>
To print the iframe you can look at the answers here:
Javascript Print iframe contents only
If you want to print the iframe automatically after the PDF has loaded, you can add an onload handler to the <iframe>:
<iframe onload="isLoaded()" id="pdf" name="pdf" src="document.pdf"></iframe>
the loader can look like this:
function isLoaded()
{
var pdfFrame = window.frames["pdf"];
pdfFrame.focus();
pdfFrame.print();
}
This will display the browser's print dialog, and then print just the PDF document itself. (I personally use the onload handler to enable a "print" button so the user can decide to print the document, or not).
I'm using this code pretty much verbatim in Safari and Chrome, but am yet to try it on IE or Firefox.
This is actually a lot easier using a dataURI, because you can just call print on the returned window object.
// file is a File object, this will also take a blob
const dataUrl = window.URL.createObjectURL(file);
// Open the window
const pdfWindow = window.open(dataUrl);
// Call print on it
pdfWindow.print();
This opens the pdf in a new tab and then pops the print dialog up.
Try this: Have a button/link which opens a webpage (in a new window) with just the pdf file embedded in it, and print the webpage.
In head of the main page:
<script type="text/javascript">
function printpdf()
{
myWindow=window.open("pdfwebpage.html");
myWindow.close; //optional, to close the new window as soon as it opens
//this ensures user doesn't have to close the pop-up manually
}
</script>
And in body of the main page:
Click to Print the PDF
Inside pdfwebpage.html:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body onload="window.print()">
<embed src="pdfhere.pdf"/>
</body>
</html>
a function to house the print trigger...
function printTrigger(elementId) {
var getMyFrame = document.getElementById(elementId);
getMyFrame.focus();
getMyFrame.contentWindow.print();
}
an button to give the user access...
(an onClick on an a or button or input or whatever you wish)
<input type="button" value="Print" onclick="printTrigger('iFramePdf');" />
an iframe pointing to your PDF...
<iframe id="iFramePdf" src="myPdfUrl.pdf" style="dispaly:none;"></iframe>
More : http://www.fpdf.org/en/script/script36.php
<?php
$browser_ver = get_browser(null,true);
//echo $browser_ver['browser'];
if($browser_ver['browser'] == 'IE') {
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>pdf print test</title>
<style>
html { height:100%; }
</style>
<script>
function printIt(id) {
var pdf = document.getElementById("samplePDF");
pdf.click();
pdf.setActive();
pdf.focus();
pdf.print();
}
</script>
</head>
<body style="margin:0; height:100%;">
<embed id="samplePDF" type="application/pdf" src="/pdfs/2010/dash_fdm350.pdf" width="100%" height="100%" />
<button onClick="printIt('samplePDF')">Print</button>
</body>
</html>
<?php
} else {
?>
<HTML>
<script Language="javascript">
function printfile(id) {
window.frames[id].focus();
window.frames[id].print();
}
</script>
<BODY marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">
<iframe src="/pdfs/2010/dash_fdm350.pdf" id="objAdobePrint" name="objAdobePrint" height="95%" width="100%" frameborder=0></iframe><br>
<input type="button" value="Print" onclick="javascript:printfile('objAdobePrint');">
</BODY>
</HTML>
<?php
}
?>
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I am creating a custom modal dialog pop up box in Google Sheets via an Apps Script that is running an onEdit trigger. The idea is, the user clicks on a checkbox in some cell in a column. The trigger detects this edit, and calls a function that utilizes Apps Script UI and HtmlService class. This creates a simple modal dialog box that is built using some html. In the html, I have a button that calls window.print(). However, by calling it, nothing happens. I think it's because of the Same Origin Policy issue. The Html Service is likely using another domain name to launch the dialog box that's different than docs.google.com. So, window calls are likely problematic. Is there another way around this? How does one create customized printing for Google Apps? I've seen some variations of creating a pdf on the fly and printing those, but this seems really inefficient for the end user.
When the checkbox is clicked, the following function is called:
function openDialog() {
var html = HtmlService.createHtmlOutputFromFile('html') ;
SpreadsheetApp.getUi()
.showModalDialog(html, 'Print Receipt');
}
Here is the following html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head><base target="_top">
</head>
<body>
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/someimage.png" alt="Logo" width="100" height="100">
<h3>testing</h3>
<button onclick="print()">Print</button>
</body>
<script>
function print() {
window.print();
}
</script>
</html>');
You should consider renaming the print function to something else, say "printPage" else it may be invoking the native print API. Also, the extra parenthesis in the HTML maybe removed.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head><base target="_top">
</head>
<body>
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/someimage.png" />
<h3>testing</h3>
<button onclick="printPage()">Print</button>
</body>
<script>
function printPage() {
window.print();
}
</script>
</html>
I have an HTA, which in turn has an Iframe. We are loading an intranet website. A button in the HTA, when clicked, will automate some task. The first step is to login, wait for the next page to load, then perform next option. The main concern here is to know that the next page has been loaded completely, so that we can initiate the code related to page ?
Can some one shed light on how to achieve this. Just to repeat, IFrame is inside HTA.
Below is my code :
<html>
<head>
<HTA:APPLICATION
APPLICATIONNAME="HTA"
SYSMENU="YES"
NAVIGABLE="YES"
>
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="ie=11">
<title>HTA</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.resizeTo(900,700);
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" >
function Start() {
var iframePage = document.getElementById("iframeid").contentDocument;
var userId = iframePage.getElementById("userid");
var passwd = iframePage.getElementById("pwd");
var form = iframePage.getElementById("login");
userId.value='aa';
passwd.value='bb';
form.submit();
var iframePages = document.getElementById("iframeid").contentDocument;
var targetContent = iframePages.getElementById ("ptifrmtgtframe").contentDocument;
var runcntl = targetContent.getElementById("PRCSRUNCNTL_RUN_CNTL_ID");
runcntl.value='test';
}
function Show() {
document.getElementById("iframe").style.display = "block";
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form class="form" name="form">
<input class="links" type="button" value="Show PIA" onclick="Show();" />
<input class="links" type="button" value="Login" onclick="Start();" />
</form>
<br>
<div class="iframe" id="iframe" style="display:none">
<iframe application="no" src="my URL" width="600" height="600" id="iframeid">
</div>
</body>
</html>
I want that:
var runcntl = targetContent.getElementById("PRCSRUNCNTL_RUN_CNTL_ID");
runcntl.value='test';
Should run, only after the page in the IFrame has loaded properly and completely, since only then the relevant feilds will be loaded. Or else, this will give error.
PS This is a PeopleSoft site.
Here is a simple example of calling code when the iframe has loaded. Check out the onload attribute of the iframe tag. Maybe you can integrate this into your HTA?
<head>
<script>
function frameLoaded() {
alert('frame loaded!');
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe id="frame" src="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element#Frames" onload="frameLoaded(this)" />
</body>
If you have access to the page, use javascript inter-window communication to trigger the JS you need. The child iframe can tell the parent when to run java script.
From a pure PeopleSoft perspective you can use related action framework component events to do what you like, too, without customization.
I think you can check the code for related content as reference. Such as OpenRCService and onRCService. In PT_COMMON, the showModalDialog method also related to the RC function which have the logic to detect a iframe is loaded.
I have a PHP web page. On the web page i have a iframe and few DIV. Now I want a single print button, which will print the content of the current active window. If no iframe or div is open then it will print the main page else the current iframe source or div content using javascript.
is it possible?
Here is an sample to print an element. Hope this will help you to get an idea.
<html>
<head>
<input type="button" value="Click to Print" onclick="printDiv()" />
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.1.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function printDiv() {
var data = $('#divToPrint').html()
var printWin = window.open('', 'Print Preview', 'height=600,width=800');
printWin.document.write('<html><head><title>Print Preview</title>');
printWin.document.write('</head><body >');
printWin.document.write(data);
printWin.document.write('</body></html>');
printWin.print();
printWin.close();
return true;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="divToPrint">jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich
JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and
manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an
easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.</div>
</body>
</html>
The data variable should be replaced with what ever that you want to print.
I tried to load PDF file in IFrame. it is working with FF and Chrome but does not load in IE. IE asking to save or open to file instead of load in IFrame. I am loading file using javascript.
I am using following code :
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function setPDF() {
var iframe = document.getElementById('iframe1');
iframe.src = "pdffile/sample1.pdf";
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe id="iframe1"></iframe>
<input type="button" value="Click" onclick="setPDF();" />
</body>
</html>
Please suggest me
Thanks
The following works in current Firefox (PDF loads), but not in current IE (page is blank). Any suggestions?
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function startup() {
var bubba = document.getElementById('bubba');
bubba.data = 'http://server.qa/test.pdf';
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="startup();">
<object id="bubba" type="application/pdf" width="80%" height="800">
No PDF reader installed
</object>
</body>
You won't be able to display the PDF like that. The syntax for including plugins differs between IE and Forefox.
I would recommend using an <iframe> instead of an <object> and using JavaScript to set the iframe's src attribute. This should invoke whichever PDF plugin is installed in the browser, or download the PDF if none is.