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Printing document directly from app

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Within my application I have a form. The user should fill in this form and click finish. After he clicks finish a pdf is created (based on documentTemplate in Mendix). Is it possible to directly print this document instead of downloading it? I found this, but I’m not sure if this will work: https://support.idrsolutions.com/jpedal/tutorials/printing/pdf-printing-a-complete-guide

asked 2020-11-18

Jannes Houben

3 answers

david verstricht · Answer 1 · 2021-01-07

What you could use as an option is the PDF viewer from mendix. after creating the document you can show it to a user, and there the user has buttons to either print or download the document

Jannes Houben · Answer 2 · 2021-01-20

The user should not be able to see any type of document. He just needs to fill in a form and and when finished, a document is generated (NOT SHOWN to the user) and this generated document (=FileDocument) should be sent to a printer directly.

Michiel Arts · Answer 3 · 2021-01-07

Not sure if this is an option in your case, but you could also decide not to create a PDF, but to create a regular page instead with a layout that is acceptable to print.

I hope this helps.