Mylor

asked on 5/31/2007

Print PDF form a link

Ok, I m driving my self crazy. I need to print several PDF files from links in my page, can anyone help please.

ie:

Print File 1 (will print, www.mysite.com/adobedoc1.pdf )
Print File 2 (will print, www.mysite.com/adobedoc2.pdf )
Print File 3 (will print, www.mysite.com/adobedoc3.pdf )

Thanks in advance!

JavaScript

Last Comment

Michel Plungjan

8/22/2022 - Mon

NHBFighter

5/31/2007

This will work in internet explorer:

<html>
<head>
<script>
function printPDF(url){
      document.getElementById('Pdf1').src=url;
      document.getElementById('Pdf1').printWithDialog();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('www.mysite.com/adobedoc1.pdf');">Print File 1</a><BR>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('www.mysite.com/adobedoc2.pdf');">Print File 2</a><BR>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('www.mysite.com/adobedoc3.pdf');">Print File 3</a>
<object id="Pdf1" type="application/pdf" style="width:0;height:0"></object>
</body>
</html>

For other browsers you will probably have to create a separate embed or object for each pdf you want to print and have them get loaded when the page loads. (Similar to one of your previous posts):

<html>
<head>

<script>
function printPDF(elementId){
      var x = document.getElementById(elementId);
      x.click();
      x.setActive();
      x.focus();
      x.print();
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('PDF1');">Print File 1</a><BR>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('PDF2');">Print File 2</a><BR>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('PDF3');">Print File 3</a>

<embed id="PDF1" src ="www.mysite.com/adobedoc2.pdf" width="0" height="0">
<embed id="PDF2" src ="www.mysite.com/adobedoc2.pdf" width="0" height="0">
<embed id="PDF3" src ="www.mysite.com/adobedoc3.pdf" width="0" height="0">

</body>
</html>

NHBFighter

5/31/2007

I can get this to work in fire fox but in IE it prints all the links and not the pdfs

<html>
<head>
<script>
function printPDF(elementId){
      var elem=document.getElementById(elementId);
      elem.contentWindow.focus();
      elem.contentWindow.print();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('PDF1');">Print File 1</a><BR>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('PDF2');">Print File 2</a><BR>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('PDF3');">Print File 3</a><BR>
<iframe id="PDF1" name="PDF1" src ="PCNMap.pdf" width="0" height="0" style="visibility:hidden"></iframe>
<iframe id="PDF2" name="PDF2" src ="PCNMap.pdf" width="0" height="0" style="visibility:hidden"></iframe>
<iframe id="PDF3" name="PDF3" src ="PCNMap.pdf" width="0" height="0" style="visibility:hidden"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

Mylor

5/31/2007

ASKER

I really like this solution, but for some reason it doesn't work:

<html>
<head>
<script>
function printPDF(url){
document.getElementById('Pdf1').src=url;
document.getElementById('Pdf1').printWithDialog();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('www.mysite.com/adobedoc1.pdf');">Print File 1</a><BR>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('www.mysite.com/adobedoc2.pdf');">Print File 2</a><BR>
<a href="javascript:printPDF('www.mysite.com/adobedoc3.pdf');">Print File 3</a>
<object id="Pdf1" type="application/pdf" style="width:0;height:0"></object>
</body>
</html>

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NHBFighter

5/31/2007

Is it not working in IE? I've tried it with IE 6 and 7. And I have Adobe 7.0 on my machine.
What configuration do you have?

NHBFighter

5/31/2007

Also how is it not working? Is it giving any errors?

Mylor

5/31/2007

ASKER

No it does not give me any errors, just doesn't do anything.
I have IE7 and Adobe 8

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NHBFighter

5/31/2007

Hmmm, printing PDFs using javascript has been a struggle for me for years, I've never found a real solid solution. If you expand the size of the <object> so you can see it does the PDF acctually get loaded into the object? (can you see the pdf when you click the print link?)

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NHBFighter

6/1/2007

mplungjan,

So how would you have the javascript with in the PDF get executed when the user clicks on a link in the HTML page?

So <a href="javascript:makePDFPrint()">Print</a> What would makePDFPrint() do to call the javascript in the PDF?

Dave

Michel Plungjan

6/2/2007

It would not

So <a href="pdfFileWithEmbeddedJavascriptThatPrints.pdf">Print</a>

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