I want to build a page that will automatically print a pdf document. For example I can call mypage.html?doc=my.pdf and it will print my.pdf file.

How I can do it using javascript or php?

Vladimir

I want to build a page that will automatically print a pdf document. For example I can call mypage.html?doc=my.pdf and it will print my.pdf file.

How I can do it using javascript or php?

Vladimir

• php
• javascript
• pdf
• printing

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• possible duplicate of Converting HTML to PDF using PHP? – cweiske Commented Aug 11, 2011 at 10:39
• You mean, as in physically print on paper? Urgh! – Richard H Commented Aug 11, 2011 at 11:18
• This is not exactly the same, but it may help: stackoverflow./questions/6167995/… – yms Commented Aug 11, 2011 at 12:26
• 1 You can't make the browser immediately offer the user the option of printing a PDF file, but you can output a PDF using a method provided by one of the users above. From there the user can opt to click the print button on their own (or choose to open/save the PDF depending on the headers you use). But to directly answer your question, there's no way to do what you want. – Brian Commented Aug 15, 2011 at 19:33

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The closest you can get to what you want is to embed an iframe containing the PDF in an HTML page, then call window.print when the iframe has loaded.

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<iframe src="path/to/file.pdf" onload="window.print()"></iframe>
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This will open the standard print dialog on most browsers.