Print Option in PDF

[Former Community Member]

Hi All,

I have a requirement where in i need to take a print of only few of the fields present in pdf. Can we create a customized print option other than default [Ctrl+p].

Regards,

Ali

[_Bruce_Robertson]

Hi Ali,

I think you need to look at having some code in the prePrint event to hide the parts of the form that you don't want to print.

Bruce

[Former Community Member]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your reply. we can also make any object visible/invisble on print. but my requirement is just to populate the data what the user has entered like for example Assume if there are 2 radio buttons and user has selected only one radio button the other radio button should not appear on print.

In brief i want to take a printout of the simple format summary of data the user has entered excluding headers/footers/images.

Regards,

Ali

[_Bruce_Robertson]

Hi Ali,

There is a Report object that allows you to create a flat pdf file which you could then call the print method on.

var rep = new Report();

if (!RadioButtonList.Yes.isNull)

{

    rep.writeText("RadioButtonList set to Yes");

}

if (!RadioButtonList.No.isNull)

{

    rep.writeText("RadioButtonList set to No");

}

if (RadioButtonList.isNull)

{

    rep.writeText("RadioButtonList not set");

}

var d = rep.open("My Report");

d.print();

But there is not much formatting available, maybe too simple.  There more info in the "JavaScript for Acrobat API Reference".

Bruce

[Former Community Member]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks but i am not able to create a variable of Report Class.

Its a simple line of code "var rep = new Report()" under button event giving below error any inputs

GeneralError: Operation failed.

Root.Report:2:XFA:form1[0]:#subform[0]:Button1[0]:click

Constructor function needs to be called with new

Regards,

Ali

[_Bruce_Robertson]

Hi Ali,

Seems that the Report object is not available in Reader (only Acrobat).

John Brinkman has a post on this sort of print option, basically having two forms defined and flicking from one to the other in the prePrint/postPrint.

http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2011/02/multiple-top-level-subforms.html

Bruce

[Former Community Member]

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your suggestion the link was helpfull. completed the requirement using one more Approach

My Approach goes like, i created a sub-form(hidden from layout) when user triggers print option following changes i made to occur:

1. Changed the property of Sub-Form from Hidden to Visible under Pre-Print Event.
2. Filled all the fileds in sub forms under pre-print Event.
3. Under Post-print Event change the property back to Hidden.

But my question still is why i was not able to use Report() class ????????

Regards,

Ali

[_Bruce_Robertson]

Hi Ali,

There are a couple of things that are not made available in Adobe Reader even if the form is enabled by Acrobat or LiveCycle and the Report object is one of them.

I didn't realise when I first suggestted it.

Bruce