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Can I set Adobe so that whenever I click print it prints immediately instead of showing the print preview?

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May 30, 2017 May 30, 2017

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Can I set Adobe so that whenever I click print it prints immediately instead of showing the print preview?

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Adobe Employee , May 31, 2017 May 31, 2017

Hi markosd88

 

 

By default, there is no such option to override print dialog window.

You may check this out: Silent Print in Acrobat Using JavaScript and let us know if that helps.

 

 

-Tariq Dar

The following code and message is something I managed to pull from the archive of the blog link mentioned above, which is no longer available:


Here’s some code: -------------------------------Start---------------------------

// if the application is Adobe Acrobat...

    //then create the silent print butt

...

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Adobe Employee ,
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Hi markosd88

 

 

By default, there is no such option to override print dialog window.

You may check this out: Silent Print in Acrobat Using JavaScript and let us know if that helps.

 

 

-Tariq Dar

The following code and message is something I managed to pull from the archive of the blog link mentioned above, which is no longer available:


Here’s some code: -------------------------------Start---------------------------

// if the application is Adobe Acrobat...

    //then create the silent print button

    if(app.viewerType == "Exchange-Pro") {

 

        app.trustedFunction(customSilentPrint);

 

        app.addToolButton({

            cName: "customSilentPrint",

            cExec: "customSilentPrint()",

            cTooltext: "Print Silent",

            cLabel: "Print Silent",

            cEnable: "event.rc = (app.doc != null)" });

        }

 

    function customSilentPrint(){

 

        // explicitly raise privileges

        app.beginPriv();

 

        try{

            // get the printer params

            var pp = this.getPrintParams();

 

            // don't show the print dialog window

            pp.interactive = pp.constants.interactionLevel.silent;

        }

        catch(err){

            app.alert("Error setting up printing parameters.\n\n" + err);

        }

 

        try{

            this.print(pp);

        }

        catch(err){

            app.alert("Error Printing.\n\n" + err);

        }

 

        // end explicit privileges

        app.endPriv();

    }

As you can see, there really isn’t much to this code, but let’s break it down.


First, we check to ensure we are in Acrobat, and if so, we add the button called “Print Silent” to the Acrobat toolbar:

    // if the application is Adobe Acrobat...then create the silent print button

    if(app.viewerType == "Exchange-Pro") {

 

        app.trustedFunction(customSilentPrint);

 

        app.addToolButton({

            cName: "customSilentPrint",

            cExec: "customSilentPrint()",

            cTooltext: "Print Silent",

            cLabel: "Print Silent",

            cEnable: "event.rc = (app.doc != null)" });

    }


Next, we create the function called customSilentPrint and raise privileges:

    function customSilentPrint()
{        // explicitly raise privileges        
           app.beginPriv();

Within the function, we get to the meat of the work by creating a print params object and setting the interaction Level to silent.

Try {           
// get the printer params           
var pp = this.getPrintParams();          
 // don't show the print dialog window           
pp.interactive = pp.constants.interactionLevel.silent;    
    }

Now that we are set up to print silent, call the print function with these lines:

try {
            this.print(pp);        }   
     catch(err){            app.alert("Error Printing.\n\n" + err);        }

To finish off our code we lower our privileges and close out the function:

// end explicit privileges        app.endPriv();     }

As you can see there’s really no magic here, but this JavaScript code is a nifty little way to print silently in Acrobat.

Also, I haven’t researched silent printing using a reader, but if you have tried it and succeeded or failed, please feel free to add to the post via comments.

 

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Jul 10, 2021 Jul 10, 2021

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Dear @Tariq Dar the link is no longer available, I have an issue regarding the print window so maybe this could bring me some help

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Adobe Employee ,
Jul 12, 2021 Jul 12, 2021

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@carlos ruiz Thanks for letting me know. 
I managed to pull the text from the blog post and I have added the information above. Clearly, this isn't my code.
If you have any questions related to the script/code. I may not be able to help with that.

Thanks.
Tariq 

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