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Bug 158748

Summary: Direct print/ Silent print
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Marten Nienhuis <nienhuis>
Component: BIRTAssignee: Jerry Cheng <cyfgod>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: nienhuis, perseusli, wenfeng.fwd, whe, xxue
Version: 2.1.1Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: 2.2.0 M6   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on: 169053    
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Description Marten Nienhuis CLA 2006-09-26 09:59:09 EDT 
I need a parameter in the URL so it is possible to sent documents directly to a printer without user interaction. For example an additional format : __format=print should make this happen.

Example : 
http://server01:8080/birt-viewer/run?__report=Report/testreport.rptdesign&__format=print

It is possible to have better alternative's. I'm open for better solutions. 
And of course, I'm available for testing this.
Comment 1 Wenfeng Li CLA 2006-09-26 21:09:00 EDT 
There is a project proposal in 2.2 to support postscript output format.  Also need to enhance engine API to allow application to set printer and print setting for the selected printer.
Comment 2 Wei Yan CLA 2006-12-25 22:23:20 EST 
1. engine should implement a postscript emitter.
2. viewer should call the printer setup and send the postscript files to the printer.
Comment 3 Ivy Li CLA 2006-12-27 13:57:27 EST 
once engine done, please implement this for viewer side.
Comment 4 Jerry Cheng CLA 2007-03-29 21:53:25 EDT 
Add a new icon : "Print report on the server" in Web Viewer toolbar.
Currently, we only support print postscript file. User should set up a printer which supports postscript stream.

In print report dialog, user can select printer and other print settings. Of course, user also can specify these settins in URL.
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__page	          : Numeric Specify which page will be output. It should be a number.

__pagerange       : String separated with comma. Specify the output page range. For example  : 1-4 or 1, 3, 6.If blank, default to all pages.

__printer         : String Specify the selected printer name.

__printer_copies  : Numeric Specify copies attribute for printer

__printer_collate : true of false (Default to false) Specify collate attribute for printer

__printer_duplex  : DUPLEX_SIMPLEX:0,DUPLEX_HORIZONTAL:1,DUPLEX_VERTICAL:2 Specify duplex attribute for printer

__printer_mode    : MODE_MONOCHROME:0,MODE_COLOR:1 Specify color mode attribute for printer

__printer_pagesize: String Specify media size name attribute for printer

__action          : String Specify action name. Currently, use "print" to indicate printing report on the server
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If disable print function, please set BIRT_VIEWER_PRINT_SERVERSIDE to OFF value in web.xml.Default value is ON, please check it.