Print an external document using javascript onClick inside link tag

[boo_lolly]

Hey guys. As the topic describes, I'm trying to use the javascript onClick tool to print an external file, not the current (or any other) HTML page. I'm wondering if I can do this without having to write a custom javascript function. If so, I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult. Like writing a function that takes the path-to-file as a parameter, and then when using it it would look something like

 

<a href="#" onClick="printdocument('http://mydomain.com/docs/file.pdf');">print file</a>

 

However, I'm not sure if javascript already has a built-in function for this. Maybe something like

 

<a href="#" onClick="document.location('http://mydomain.com/docs/file.pdf').print();">print file</a>

 

Can anyone help me with this?

 

[Ken2k7]

I don't know if this works with PDF files, but give it a try.

 

Add this to the top.

<link rel="alternate" media="print" href="file.pdf">

 

Then change the anchor to

<a href="file.pdf" onclick="window.print(); return false;">Print File</a>

[boo_lolly]

I did something like that before and it works, yeah, but ontop of printing the file, it also assumes you want to download it, or view it in your web-browser... whichever the browser settings may be, it performs an extra operation, which I'm looking to avoid.

 

could I add a hidden iFrame embedded in the page? and have a link to print whatever is inside the frame?