I know there are some links and answers around here but they dont fit my problem...
I have an open tab in a browser with a pdf to print and I want to close it automatically as soon as the user hits the 'OK' (print) button.
I know there are ways to use javascript onbeforeprint() and onafterprint() for this, but as you can imagine I it is impossible to call those from a pdf file :D - I see plugin for a browser as my best shot... Any ideas anybody?
why dont you set the PDF into an iframe and print it that way,
i have a work around for your print box close page issue.
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
// timeout is used to give the browser a chance to load everything before executing the close
setTimeout(function(){ window.close();},300);
// before unload print the window, then the window closes if it was opened with window.open()
$(window).bind("beforeunload",function(){
window.print();
});
});
</script>
unless your using the browsers internal PDF viewer then, i'm at a loss.
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I'm a newbie with JavaScript and I was looking for a method to print a pdf document with a button click without any dialog window opening or not make the user able to change the print settings, I want to print it with a fixed printer, number of pages and format.
I already tried Print.js but it still opens a dialog window and the user can change the settings in it.
The browser does not allow it to print automatically without the user being able to choose the settings to print. This would be extremely problematic as someone can print endless pages without the users permission
My idea of what am trying to do is
When I open a website on one tab of an internet explorer broweser and click on a link it should open a new tab in the same browser with a pdf page init ... the pdf page has a lot of links which if u try clicking on any of them they should take you back to the old tab where u managed to lunch open the pdf from and keep switching between those two tabs only
I hope the idea is clear .. am trying to do this using html and javascript ... this what I wrote but am still missing a lot here. Thanks in advance for any help provided
this piece here lunches another instant in another window
<html>
<head>
<script>
function son()
{
myWindow=window.open('','','width=500,height=500');
myWindow.document.write(" SON !");
myWindow.focus();
myWindow.opener.document.write("<p> DAD !</p>");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" value="Open " onclick="son()" />
</body>
</html>
This file is where I have the pdf file built in.
<object data="Test.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="100%" height="100%">
<p>It appears you don't have a PDF plugin for this browser.
you can <a href="Test.pdf">click here to
download the PDF file.</a></p>
</object>
thanks again
In the old days, you could use a window's focus method to bring a window/tab into the foreground. However, abuse (mostly in the form of advertisers' popup windows) has resulted in browsers restricting or disabling that functionality.
If we ignore the PDF part, conceptually, this is a very simple request. First, open a window and hold on to its reference:
var pop = window.open('page.html'); // opens in new tab on most browsers
In the secondary page, switching back to the original was simple:
window.opener.focus(); // no longer works in most modern browsers
And from the first page, to switch back:
pop.focus(); // might work
In my test, I couldn't get IE 9 or Chrome 21 to switch back to the opener tab. In Chrome, I could open the second page, manually switch back to the original tab, and calling pop.focus() did bring the second tab back in focus. (IE did nothing.) I was able to force Chrome back to the opening page by calling window.opener.alert('...'); from the secondary page, but that's an ugly hack.
So it looks like you won't be able to pull this off, at least not reliably.
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to accomplish (a TOC?), but have you thought about opening two windows? Open one with your links that covers the left-hand side of the screen, and another on the other half with the PDF.
JavaScript does not have APIs for controlling tabs. Therefore, you can't do it.
You can open windows, but you can't control if it will be a tab or window.
One alternative possibility involves NOT opening a second window or tab.
If you open another/replacing page in the current window or tab,
you can use the History object to switch between the two pages.
history.go(-1); //takes you back to previous page
history.go(1); //takes you forward to the page from which you went back.
I am wondering whether it's possible to close a tab as soon as a new site has loaded, without having to use js on the new site. I basically want to close the tab when we receive any content from the new site.
I use this to trigger a click event which submits a form:
$('#target_attack').click();
I tried putting window.close() right after this, but the tab closed without having loaded the new site.
I also tried to pause the script for 3 seconds and then close the tab, but for some reasons the site then won't load.
I also thought about using sessions but this means I would have to use js on the other site too, which I want to avoid.
I hope you guys can help a little javascript noob C:
Thanks in advance!
Guessing you are using window.open to open it in a new tab.
var winPop = window.open(url);
$(winPop.document).ready(function() {
window.close();
});
If javascript didn't open the window, javascript cannot close the window. Otherwise, window.close() is what you use.
You can try to bypass this security restriction (bad plan), but I do not believe this works on newer versions of any browser:
window.top.opener=null;
window.close();
See the docs - Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM:window.close, IE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536367%28VS.85%29.aspx
I'm trying to create a simple click to print link for an image, and what I'd like to happen is when the link is clicked, a new window opens with the image, and the browser opens the print command dialogue box.
My question is whether this is possible just from a URL parameter, or from the anchor element on the initiating page? Or do I have to build a target page with javascript to do this?
Here's a sample of what I've got:
<p class="click-2-print">
Click here to print the map above
</p>
Obviously the code above will open the image in a new window, but still requires to user to hit Ctrl+P, Cmd+P or use the browser commands. My client wants the image to "just print" when the user clicks the link, so I'm trying to find the simplest way to accomplish this.
So is there any parameters or attributes that I can add to the above markup to accomplish what I have described?
You'll have to call window.print(). Perhaps something like this?
function printimage(){
var URL = "http://myimage.jpg";
var W = window.open(URL);
W.window.print();
}
Another option may be to put the image on a page that tells the browser to print when loaded. For example...
<body onload="window.print();">
<img src="/img/map.jpg">
</body>
Cody Bonney's answer will not work in certain browsers if the full url includes the image extension. The browser will automatically download it as soon as the new tab opens. You can get around this like so.
var url = scope.src;
var w = window.open('', '');
w.document.write('<html><head>');
w.document.write('</head><body >');
w.document.write('<img id="print-image-element" src="'+url+'"/>');
w.document.write('<script>var img = document.getElementById("print-image-element"); img.addEventListener("load",function(){ window.focus(); window.print(); window.document.close(); window.close(); }); </script>');
w.document.write('</body></html>');
w.window.print();
This will open a new page with the image, prompt the user to print, and after printing, close the new tab and reset focus to the original tab.
Disregard the scope.src that is angular specific code. Everything else should work as long as you provide your own url value from somewhere else
I would recommend you create a page in whatever language or framework you are working in that accepts a querystring argument for the image path, output that image in the document and have an onload / ready call to window.print(). Link to that instead of the image directly, and keep the target="_blank" and you should be set.
You have to call window.print() in javascript to trigger the browser print dialog. I'm pretty sure you can't trigger a print without user interaction unless you run a signed applet.
Hey Jag. Although its not exactly what you are looking to do, I did write this tutorial while I was working at a web design firm. You can probably rummage that code to get the link that prints the image. Basically what this code does it add a print button to the fancybox jquery plugin. I dont see why you couldnt just use the print part to add it to whatever you need. Hope it helps.
Add print ability to fancybox jquery plugin
I have this script on my html page:
<script language='javascript'>parent.resizeTo(550,510);</script>
I'd like to add to it so it positions the window in the middle of the screen. Also, I want to remove the address and tool bars (I've managed to hide the scrollbars by using body{overflow:hidden;}).
I know how to do this using JS upon opening a new window from the browser but this needs to work from clicking a link on a PDF.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you!
You can't remove address bars, etc. from the user's browser window (even if the user is only you) unless you create a new window object. And the trend is toward removing more and more of your ability to "customize" such popup windows, for security reasons.
This is actually a feature, not a bug. Think about it.
If you're opening a browser window from a separate application, the page starts off its life with a completely-decorated browser window. There's no way to make those decorations go away after the page is loaded.
While I seriously doubt the justification of your desires the way to do it is to somehow open a window. That means that your pdf links to a page that as its action will open a window with an url that has the actual content. The pdf links to a page that is basically a redirector. You give the final URL as a parameter and launch it. Of course you need to disable the popup blocker for this to work, but you should not even consider doing this on a public (no browser control) website anyway. You also might want to add to the redirector page a button that the user can click to open the page if it was blocked by the popup blocker.