print pdf file in acrobat reader using javascript and close it

Question

Hi,

we are displaying a reporting services report as a pdf document in acrobat reader. when the user clicks on the print in the acrobat reader, I will like to print the report and close the report. The user should be able to print the report only once.

Answer 1

I do not think that this is possible. You need much more access then browser can give. May be ActiveX or browser add-in can help...

Anyways, browsers have some limited support for printing. Check out:

window.print();

I am not sure if it works in all browsers, though.

Answer 2

This is possible to do. You simply need to add

this.print();

as a "JavaScript PDF action" to the "open" event of the document. Unfortunately, if your report generator is creating the PDFs internally you might not be able to inject the necessary code.