HTML printing

[krsh24]

Hi,

I have few HTML documents stored in database. The requirement is to read these HTML documents (say as string object) and print the HTML document similar to how the browsers print work. But the requirement is to execute the print silently without any print dialog popping up (like printer preferences) coz this will be a windows service. The target .NET framework is 1.1.

I tried this option.

Dim objHTML As New HTMLDocumentClass
'etc etc			
objHTML.execCommand("print", true,flags)

on calling the execCommand pops up the print dialog. I tried setting the second parameter of the execCommand to false but that doesn seem to make any difference.

Are there any other ways where i can pass the "printer name" and other settings and it silently prints the HTML document.

Thank you
Krsh

 

[grmbl]

I think you either have to parse the HTML through a browser and process the page giving parameters to print... or you extract the data from database, create the file physically, use .NET PrintDocument and delete the file.

 

[krsh24]

Well yes i could do that. But still using PrintDocument i would still end up seeing a printing status window. Is there any way i could do a silent print?

Thank You
Krsh

 

[grmbl]

Set PrintDialog Parameter & then print document with out showing Print Dialog.

My google query:
PrintDocument no dialog - Google zoeken

PrintDocument.PrintOut()

Maybe that's the way to do it? I don't have time to look into it but
the link I provided will maybe help you on your way...