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

[Mike S. <Mik...@Do...>]

Thanks for the great ideas - I learned a lot for your "kludges".   :)


Mark Dootson wrote:
> 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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