Re: Printing a web page on a kiosk

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since you have control over the kiosks, deploy a batch file to the PCs.
The batch file would be something like:
cd program files (x86)\adobe\reader*\reader
acrord32 /p /h %1
Where %1 is the fully qualified path & file name of the PDF you want to
print.
/p = print
/h = hide the Reader window.

By using "reader*" you insulate yourself from Adobe's habit of having new
versions of Reader go into directories with a version number in the
directory name (though the PC admins may need to ensure only 1 version of
Reader is installed).

I adapted the above from
http://www.watchdirectory.net/wdhelp/plugins/wdopAutoRunBat/templates/Automatically_Print_PDF_files.htmlwhich
uses a utility to monitor a directory for PDFs & takes actions when
one appears.  You might also look into that.



On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Jack Tucky <jacktucky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have a web page for our customer that is a large non-profit cemetery.
> This particular app runs on a kiosk at the welcome center.  You can enter
> the deceased name, search the database, and we return the burial
> information
> as well as a PDF (from the IFS) containing a map of the plot.
>
>
>
> In order to print the complete page, the customer clicks a print button to
> print the HTML burial information, then they have to click the PDF viewer
> print icon.
>
>
>
> We need to make it easier to use.  All of the examples I found on the web
> for printing the PDF from HTML don't work reliably.  They put the PDF in an
> iframe and then use printWithDialog, but I can't get them to work on I.E.
> They work sometimes on Chrome.
>
>
>
> One thing we are considering is converting the PDF to HTML on the fly.  I
> suppose that would have to be a java call on the Iseries?
>
>
>
> Thanks, Jack
>
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