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Lloyd Cotten
Lloyd Cotten

Reputation: 4546

Use System Print Dialog in Chrome in JavaScript

We have an issue where Chrome's "Print Preview" does not print our pages correctly. If you use the "Use System Print Dialog link" (Ctrl+Shift+P), it prints our page fine (almost identically to Firefox).

We have a button on our page that calls window.print() to open the print dialog. However, in Chrome it opens to the "Print Preview" dialog which ends up not printing our page correctly.

Is there away with JavaScript to print directly to the "system print dialog" in Chrome?

P.S. I do know how the end user can disable the Print Preview in chrome://flags, but what I want to know is there anyway to prevent it from showing when I programmatically call window.print() (or similar) regardless of user settings.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 7108

Answers (2)

hjindal
hjindal

Reputation: 606

Hi i am facing the same issue... I even tried firing keyboard event ctrl+shift+P from my script in order to show system print dialog.

You can fire a keyboard event and that issue is successfully dispatched, however the value of keyCode that the browser receives is always 0 (instead of ASCII value of ‘P’)

There is a bug logged https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16735 against webkit for the same… and here are some posts http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=27048, http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=52408 mentioning the same issue in Safari and Chrome…

Upvotes: 1

Diodeus - James MacFarlane
Diodeus - James MacFarlane

Reputation: 114347

Print dialogs are not scriptable using JavaScript. They're proprietary parts of browsers themselves.

Upvotes: 2

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