Have you tried the -print option just to see if that would be an option for you? The experiment only takes you two minutes but might save you a lot of trouble.
Options for printing PDF are: - remote-control Adobe Acrobat using COM on Windows. - GhostScript can print PDFs. I'm not sure what the automation grade would be. - There are various PDF tools on the internet that might help you here. GIYF. - Some (more expensive) printers support printing PDF directly. On 25.01.2008 11:48:34 Muralidhar_YARAGALLA wrote: > Ya I think we cannot print the pdf documents with fop. It is only possible > if you are generating pdf using fop. It takes the input file (which cannot > be pdf) and renders that into various paginated output file but the input > file will be processed and will be sent to the printer not the generated > output. > > If I am wrong please correct me. If there is any way that i can print > already existing pdf kindly tell me. > > Thanks And Regards, > Muralidhar Yaragalla. > > > > Extranet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 01/25/2008 02:06 PM > Please respond to > [email protected] > > > To > fop-users > cc > > Subject > Re: Printing issue > > > > > > > FOP has PDF generation capabilities but FOP cannot print PDF files (you > need a different tool for that). However, if it's only about printing > the generated document (I say document here, not PDF, because PDF is > just one possible output format of FOP), you can also use the > "PrintRenderer" which doesn't generate a PDF but uses Java2D/AWT to > print the document using Java's printing capabilities. > > On the FOP command-line, this is the "-print" parameter. For embedded > use, have a look at: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/examples/embedding/java/embedding/ExampleFO2OldStylePrint.java?view=markup > > > Note to self and fop-devs: Since we're now on Java 1.4 we can/should > eventually switch over to using JPS. > > On 25.01.2008 08:54:40 Muralidhar_YARAGALLA wrote: > > Hi I know with fop we can generate PDF documents but can we print them > > programatically without user intervention. I need to fetch the pdf > files > > from a folder and i have to send them for printing. no pop up and no > user > > intervention should be there. It should happen silently in the > background. > > Can I do this fop. > > > > Thanks And Regards, > > Muralidhar Yaragalla. > > > > Jeremias Maerki > Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
