RE: Printing from java

I just came across a link to a product that claims to be pure Java and claims 
to be able to print PDFs without user involvement. Here it is:

http://www.activetree.com/

I see their "Purchase" link doesn't tell you a price, which in my experience 
translates to "expensive", but maybe their price would be worth paying. And 
they do give you trial downloads, so you could see if it worked with your 
network printers first.

PC2 

-----Original Message-----
From: java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Rune Kaus
Sent: May 4, 2006 14:26
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: Re: Printing from java

Hi all and thanx for all of your suggestions.

Sorry for being unclear in my problem description.
Let me just explain a few important issues that regards this case.
The user is *not* an i5 user.
All the user does is select a template (.rtf) and selects a dataset to be 
merged into the template. The template is .rtf for the users to easily edit it 
using their "favourite" word processor.
The process of merging the data with the template is all batch (/mail-merge/), 
and may result in hundreds of different documents (so displaying them all is 
not an option).
The resulting documents are to be printed on a predefined or selected network 
printer. If it helps that this printer is defined on the i5, so be it.