As has been beaten to death on this forum, once you
serve the PDF to a user, due to the nature of PDF, you
can't control things like whether they copy it or
print it. You will have to be satisfied with a
summary of the PDF or something similar on the client
side if you want to stop the user from doing something
with it...
-Matt
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> :) yes, the document shoult printed at the webusers
> printer!
>
> my problem is, that i need a solution to serve
> existing pdf files to
> webusers. the webuser is allowed to print the pdf
> file only one time!!! i
> want a small servlet that open a pdf-file in the
> background and shows only a
> button ("Now Print" or somethink else). i cant use
> the command.exe.... every
> user installed the acrobat an another place... so i
> need another solution.
> im not good in java (i like perl,assembler,...and so
> on).
>
> can anybody help me,... is the javaservlet solution
> possible?
>
> okay, sure javascript, but the user can change the
> printouts from one to
> whatever,..... but any user are allowed only one
> printout!
>
> thanks
>
> jonas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Wendy Smoak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 4:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] pdf print?!?
>
>
> > But you just want it to print to the user's
> default
> > (Windows) printer? You could do it, for example,
> if
> > you sent the printer path to the servlet, assuming
> the
> > servlet runs on Windows OR you have already set up
> > your Unix server to be able to print to each of
> > however many Windows printers may be candidates
> for
> > this. This discussion could get really long
> though so
> > I'll leave it at that for now.
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> > --- Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > RE: [iText-questions] pdf print?!?From: Paulo
> Soares
> > > > See
> > > http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#printing.
> > > > You can also use ghostscript.
> > >
> > > But the OP wants to "print it one time with a
> java
> > > servlet". The code above
> > > will lead to a pile of paper in the server room,
> > > while I suspect that the OP
> > > wants it to print on the client side when
> someone
> > > visits a URL that's mapped
> > > to his Servlet.
> > >
> > > I've used JavaScript to pop up a printer dialog
> on a
> > > web page, but AFAIK you
> > > can't [easily, without annoying users,] force
> > > anything to print from a
> > > Servlet.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Wendy Smoak
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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