Re: Printing

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Dan Shirah <mrsquash2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> >   Do you want to print this on your office printer or on the website
> users
> > printer?
> >
> > If you are looking for away to print it on their printer, why not just
> grab
> > all the files that need to be printed, make a PDF of it, and then use the
> > browsers print feature?
> >
> >
> >
> >  --
> > Jason Pruim
> > japruim@xxxxxxxxxx
> > 616.399.2355
> >
>
> I want it to print to the users local printer.
>
> Basically the user has a form and based on their search criteria they will
> get multiple results.
>
> Next to each result I have a checkbox that the user will use to select the
> documents they want to print.
>
> Once they have selected everything they want to print, they click on a
> "Print Selection" link.
>
> The checkboxes all have the same name but different dynamically assigned
> values, so once they click to print, an array of values for the checkbox
> name is passed to my next page.
>
> I have a for () loop on the next page that extracts each individual value
> and uses it in a query to extract information and build a pdf which is
> automatically output to a file.
>
> Once a PDF has been generated I want to send it to the users printer to be
> printed.
>

You can't, the best you can do is send the PDF down and let the user choose
to do with it what they will

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