Trigger Print in Adobe Embed API

[jerson15A7]

Hello,

I am trying to trigger the Print PDF, when I clicked a button on my page. 

How can I achieve this? I can see the Download PDF and Print PDF actions on the upper right of the viewer thru the three dots button but I wan't to be able to print the pdf programatically thru my UI.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Jerson

[Joel Geraci]

The current version of Embed API does not allow for the programmatic print of the PDF file. If Adobe added that feature, a malicious developer would be able to trigger the printing of a hidden PDF just by landing on a page.

[jerson15A7]

In my opinion, print should be a basic feature of the API. Even the browser itself exposes window.print(). Just my two cents though.

[jerson15A7]

If the document is print protected, then it should restrict print.

[Joel Geraci]

It is.

[Joel Geraci]

Back when I was a product manager at Adobe we actually got a specific request from several Enterprise IT managers to prevent unprompted printing from Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Imagine landing on a page and suddenly having your printer start spitting out hundreds of pages in full color and chewing through all of your expensive ink cartridges. Programmatic printing is essentially a method to DDoS the print queues for shared printers.