Hi, Albie Janse van Rensburg schrieb: > Hi > > I am trying to write a PDF printer applet. The applet is fed a URL of > the PDF, which it must query for the document, and then I want it to > print to a selected printer (drop-down list of > PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices). My applet's jar (and the > pdfbox jar) are signed, which got me around some initial permission issues. > > I have used the PDDocument object's load(url) method to get the file. > When I call PDDocument.print(), I get a popup dialog to select a > printer, but when I click the Print button, a whole lot of nothing > happens! That's right - nothing. No printer job queued, no error, the > dialog disappears, and that is all she wrote. > > My code: > > ====code==== > private PDDocument pdfDocument; > private String url = "http://localhost/test.pdf";; > ... (snip) ... > > if (pdfLoaded == false) { > pdfDocument = new PDDocument (); > pdfDocument.load(new URL (url)); > pdfLoaded = true; > } > pdfDocument.print(); > ====code==== > > Is there something obvious I'm missing here? The load-method is static and delivers the document you have to use for further usage. Try sometjing like this:
PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument.load(new URL (url)); pdfDocument.print(); BR Andreas Lehmkühler
