How to print silently on a specific printer using PXCV_

[ciroettorre]

Hello,

I know that it is possible to use the ActiveX control for printing silently ( you have already posted a reply to another user with the same problem ).
What I would like to ask is instead a sample showing how to print silently to a specific printer, with specific parameters, but using only the "C" kernel PXCV_...
Basically, what I need is something similar to the function pxcview36_sample_app.cpp::void PrintPdfFile(HWND hParentWnd), but without any printer dialog popping up, so a similar function like:
void PrintPdfFile( char *pdfFileName, char *printerName, <printer parameters>, ... )
Do you have something ready for this ?

Thanks,
Ciro Ettorre
MechWorks

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

Please see PDF-XChange Viewer ActiveX SDK Help, section <How to Use\How to Print a Document?> for example.
Also you can setup more printing parameters before printing (see section <Reference\Named Items\Named Objects\Print>).

[ciroettorre]

Hello,

may be I was'nt sufficiently clear.
What I asked is to print silently WITHOUT using the ActiveX, so using ONLY the "c" library set of functions PXCV_...

Ciro

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

To do this you need
1. Open PDF document (using PXCV_ functions PXCV_Init, PXCV_ReadDocumentW, etc)
2. Setup and get DC of required printer (very depends from programming language and used API/Frameworks)
3. For each page (or for required subset) call PXCV_DrawPageToDC function with your printer DC, page number, and filled LPPXV_CommonRenderParameters structure.

[ciroettorre]

I knew this. The example supplied with the default installation of PXCV already shows this.
The question was if YOU HAVE ANY EXAMPLE about it, but it looks like if you dont have

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

You are saying

The example supplied with the default installation of PXCV already shows this.

But immediately into next line:

The question was if YOU HAVE ANY EXAMPLE about it, but it looks like if you dont have

I cannot understand what you need -- complete solution which can just copy/paste ?

[ciroettorre]

The example delivered shows how to display a printer dialog and to make a pdf print.
There is no example on how to AVOID to display the printer dialog and to make the pdf print on a passed printer-name with passed printer parameters

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Sorry, but this task has no relation to PDF-XChange at all.

[ciroettorre]

ok - let's say I will use the ActiveX control for such task, can you show me a two lines example of how to instantiate the ActiveX control in MFC/ATL by using the technique you describe in the PDF SDK manual:

IPDFXCview
This interface is the default interface of our ActiveX control. This interface is derived directly from
IDispatch. The interface may be obtained by calling CoCreateInstance in C/C++ or CreateObject in
VB, or by any other methods provided by particular languages.

??
I used this but it does'nt work:
#import "\Tracker Software\PDF-XChange Viewer SDK\Bin\PDFXCviewAx.dll" no_namespace, named_guids, raw_interfaces_only
...
CComPtr<IPDFXCview> spViewer;
hRes = spViewer.CoCreateInstance(__uuidof(IPDFXCview), NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER );
...
Thanks,
Ciro

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Sorry, it is mistake into our documentation: CoCreateInstance isn't enough to instantiate ActiveX control.

See attched examples how to do this.

[ciroettorre]

Thanks for the examples, but I was looking for something where NO WINDOWS were created - I have to create a process that must run in a batch way, so it is not granted that a window could be created ... can the windows created in any of the three examples be hidden ?
Do you have any example where NO window is involved ?

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

Sorry, but it is impossible in the current realization, our Viewer ActiveX is ActiveX-Control (as defined by Microsoft ActiveX Control technology). It cannot work without a window.

If you have a need for Viewing without the ned for a window then you can use Simple DL Viewer SDK also available from us.

Hope that helps