Based on comments below, it no longer works in modern browsers
This question demonstrates an approach that might be helpful to you: Silent print an embedded PDF
It uses the <embed>
tag to embed the PDF in the document:
<embed type="application/pdf" src="path_to_pdf_document.pdf" id="pdfDocument" width="100%" height="100%" />
Then you call the .print()
method on the element in Javascript when the PDF is loaded:
function printDocument(documentId) { var doc = document.getElementById(documentId); //Wait until PDF is ready to print if (typeof doc.print === 'undefined') { setTimeout(function(){printDocument(documentId);}, 1000); } else { doc.print(); } }
You could place the embed in a hidden iframe and print it from there, giving you a seamless experience.