Re: [wxperl-users] printing a PDF from wxPerl

[Mark D. <mar...@zn...>]

Hi,

After writing the last reply, a huge kludge occurred to me that, as it turns out, works just fine.

use Wx::ActiveX::IE
pass it the URL of your pdf, and print merrily.
e.g. 

my $obj = Wx::ActiveX::IE->new( $frame , -1, wxDefaultPosition , wxDefaultSize );
$obj->LoadUrl("file:///C:/mytest.pdf");
$obj->Print(0); # for no print dialog
$obj->Print(1); # for print dialog

Of course, loading IE and the Acrobat plugin may seem a little excessive just to print a doc, but heck, this is windows and four lines of code is pretty impressive.

Mark


Mark Dootson wrote:
> Just as an F.Y.I.
> 
> I once had the idea that I could open a PDF in Wx::ActiveX::Acrobat
> control in a hidden Frame and simply call its Print method.
> 
> Alas, I have never been able to get Wx::ActiveX::Acrobat to work or
> use Win32::OLE with acrobat reader. (Note, the free reader, NOT the
> full acrobat). I suspect its a version 7/8 thing as
> Wx::ActiveX::Acrobat will have worked originally.
> 
> I was reduced to using the /p /h  params to AcroRd32.exe
> 
> (AcroRd32.exe /p /h my.pdf)
> 
> For anyone who has not tried it, it works, but its ugly. The Acrobat
> instance does not close down after printing. (though it does close
> the document). But Acrobat always does this anyway.
> 
> Of course, the problem might be behind the keyboard at this end
> rather than with Wx::ActiveX::Acrobat, so if anyone does have some
> working code, it would be nice to see it.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Schroeder wrote:
>> Not sure if this is an obvious question I am just missing or not,
>> but....
>> 
>> We generate server-side PDFs and then pass them to wxPerl clients.
>> By default we just open them with the appropriate mime-type
>> application on the client platform (so evince/xpdf on gtk, Preview
>> on OSX, Acrobat on Win32).
>> 
>> The issue now is if we can print without having to open first.  For
>>  Linux and OSX, worst case we can just do a system call to "lp 
>> filename.pdf" and everything is fine, but not sure how to print a
>> PDF in Win32 without first opening it in Acrobat.
>> 
>> I noticed that Mark Wardell has wrapped wxPdfDocument, and that the
>>  wxPdfDocument folks plan on providing a wxPdfDC (similar to 
>> wxPostscriptDC) for printing in their next release -- is that the
>> way to go??
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any insight/suggestions.
>> 
>> Mike.
>> 
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