Hi

So after creating the pdf using ewb and a webmodule as in the ewb example.

I cannot see any buttons to print the document in view.

Surely you can print a pdf document preview onto a printer.

In explorer or chrome or mozilla you get the buttons appearing and then you can just select the print button to print.

But NOT on the iPad .. how strange ?

Has anybody seen this issue with safari on iPad ?

What is the solution?

regards

Kamran

kamran wrote:
>So after creating the pdf using ewb and a webmodule as in the ewb example.
>Surely you can print a pdf document preview onto a printer.

Try this:
Include webdom, then call window.print; when you want to print.

Erick
http://www.erickengelke.com

Hi Erick

Yes thank you for that..

I tried that but it triggers the print on IPad for "Airprint printers" only.

I have an  Epson receipt printer connected to the ethernet network which is NOT  Airprint compatible.

So I don't know how to get it to print directly to the epson receipt printer that is clearly connected to the network.

That should be easy to do but I have no idea how to go about it and get it to work from within EWB

Kind regards

Kamran

erickengelke wrote:

kamran wrote:
>So after creating the pdf using ewb and a webmodule as in the ewb example.
>Surely you can print a pdf document preview onto a printer.

Try this:
Include webdom, then call window.print; when you want to print.

Erick
http://www.erickengelke.com

kamran wrote:

> I have an  Epson receipt printer connected to the ethernet network which is NOT  Airprint compatible.

The iPad will only ever print to AirPrint printers. The only way you can print to anything else is to do all the coding yourself to write a custom printer driver. Lots of work for a PDF!

You might be able to do some sort of output to a receipt printer using Cordova and custom code. Not a PDF though.

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Matthew Jones

Matthew Jones wrote:

> The iPad will only ever print to AirPrint printers. The only way you can print to anything else is to do all the coding yourself...

Actually, not entirely true. Well, it is, but you can use either software or hardware solutions to add a generic printer using either Windows or Mac. If this is for a professional solution, check out https://www.lantronix.com/products/xprintserver-office/ I used both the home and business versions successfully before getting newer printers.


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Matthew Jones

Hi Matthew

Thanks..... just looked at that..

seems promising.. but shame its not a software solution !

cheers

kamran

"Matthew Jones" wrote:

Matthew Jones wrote:

> The iPad will only ever print to AirPrint printers. The only way you can print to anything else is to do all the coding yourself...

Actually, not entirely true. Well, it is, but you can use either software or hardware solutions to add a generic printer using either Windows or Mac. If this is for a professional solution, check out https://www.lantronix.com/products/xprintserver-office/ I used both the home and business versions successfully before getting newer printers.


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Matthew Jones

kamran wrote:

> but shame its not a software solution !

Solutions exist for both Windows and Mac to act as servers too, but frankly I'd not want to rely on them in a commercial setting. Maybe though something has changed, so go search for the options. I got Airprint working on my mother's Windows computer with the available info, but that is not at the same uptime and reliability level as it sounds you need. But maybe it would be okay for you - I don't know your setup.

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Matthew Jones

On 6/7/2017 5:25 AM, kamran wrote:
> seems promising.. but shame its not a software solution !

There are number of mac based software solutions (printopia and
handyprint for example) and quick google shows there is O'Print for
example (http://oprintware.com/) that is windows based also.

You'd have to google and see if any of these might work for your needs

Raul