window.print with no print dialog prompt

[Steven]

Hi all,

Is it possible to do an ie print from javascript that does not bring
up the print dialog? I'm in a situation where i need to load a
sequence of files into a browser and print all of them without any
user interaction.

Thanks!
~Steven

 

[Ivo]

Hi all,

Is it possible to do an ie print from javascript that does not bring
up the print dialog? I'm in a situation where i need to load a
sequence of files into a browser and print all of them without any
user interaction.

Thanks!
~Steven

Sorry, afraid not. Security thing. Imagine such a code in the hands of porn
spammer.
Can you not glue the pages together somehw?
Ivo

 

[Jim Ley]

Hi all,

Is it possible to do an ie print from javascript that does not bring
up the print dialog? I'm in a situation where i need to load a
sequence of files into a browser and print all of them without any
user interaction.

http://www.meadroid.com/scriptx/ For IE (or win32 opera/netscape
with neptune from the same folk)

Obviously this is in a secured environment, as Ivo noted.

Jim.

 

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <[email protected]>, seen in

Sorry, afraid not. Security thing. Imagine such a code in the hands of porn
spammer.

Can be done, without insecurity; but not AIUI by javascript on a normal
page.

Write, in your favourite HLL, code to issue the necessary HTTP requests,
collect the files, and print them.

To print them : either write your own HTML renderer, with possibly a JS
interpreter ; or merge them into one long page and print that manually
with a browser (problem with page break, soluble perhaps with CSS).