Silently Printing Your PDF

Dave Wraight Planet PDF Contributing Editor

March 23, 2000

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If you have ever had the need to give your end users a 'Print' button on the page then read on.

Select the Form Field tool (see Figure 1.1), and draw a small button sized area on the page (see Figure 1.2). When the Form Field dialog comes up give the Field a name (myButton) and select 'Button' from the 'Type' list box (see Figure 1.3).

Figure 1.1

Figure 1.2

Figure 1.3

Click the 'Actions' tab and select the 'Mouse Up' event and click the 'Add...' button. Select 'JavaScript' from the 'Type' listbox, and click the 'Edit...' button (see Figure 1.4).

Figure 1.4

Type the following Javascript code into the editor window (case sensitive) to (see Figure 1.5):

Figure 1.5

Print the Current Page only:

this.print(false,this.pageNum, this.pageNum,false);    

OR

Print from the current page to the end of the document:

this.print(false,this.pageNum, this.numPages,false);

The four parts of the javascript print command are:

• True/False - Determines whether the 'Print Dialog' window is displayed.
• Start Page Number
• End Page Number
• True/False - Determines whether the 'Cancel' print job dialog window is displayed.

You can type any valid page number in place of the 'this.pageNum' and 'this.numPages' statements.

Note: If you want to put some text on the 'face' of the button see below Figure 1.6 and Figure 1.7.

Figure 1.6

Figure 1.7

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