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Kaplan
Kaplan

Reputation: 93

Send several files to printer when clicking a link in webpage


I'm looking for a way to print several files (pdf and ppt documents) automatically when a user clicks a link, for example. This files have to be programatically chosen taking values from a form within the page.
They're not going to be many files, only up to 5, maybe less, each time the user clicks to print them. For example:

http://server/folder1/folderA/file1.pdf
http://server/folder2/folderB/file2.ppt
http://server/folder3/folderC/file3.pdf
http://server/folder4/folderD/file4.ppt

I prefer it to only prompts the user one time to print documents although I don't know if this'll require to merge all them together in a single one. I really don't know how to achieve this: i'm open to Javascript, jQuery, ASP... Any idea? Is this feasible? Thanks in advance!!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 408

Answers (1)

ThiefMaster
ThiefMaster

Reputation: 318508

You can't. Especially not if the files aren't HTML (for HTML files you could call window.print(); to open the "Print" dialog).

ASP would only run on the server so that's not a solution. It might be possible with a Java applet but I think you should rather provide links to the files and explain the user how to print them.

Upvotes: 1

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