SmartjPDF server edition supports:

Your PDF can be a local file or a remote file or a server page that dynamically generates a PDF.

Visit our website and download server version of the PDF archive. After downloading unzip this ZIP archive to a local folder (let us say c:/pdf/).

It requires a license key for making it functional. All demo archives are functional using the demo license key "A8EC-73AF-64A9-0375". One of the command line arguments to the .bat (for Windows) or .sh (for Unix/Linux) file might be the license key. To find out what are the command line arguments are required for the sample scripts to work simply type the script and press enter it will show you the "Usage" options.

Input an URL and does not matter if the document is located in local file system, in a remote web server or a server program that dynamically generate one. An URL with appropriate URL syntax is all that required for printing or viewing it.

Examples of typing a local file URL:

Examples of typing remote URL:

There is an executable script file (.bat and .sh) for each of the demo JAVA sample in the "examples" directory. For Pdf2ResizedPngDemo.java sample there is a Pdf2ResizedPngDemo.bat (for Windows) and a Pdf2ResizedPngDemo.sh (for Unix/Linux) in the installation/ProductDirectory/bin/converter/ directory.

For running these *.bat or *.sh script files open a command shell, go to the directory where this script are located, then simply type one of the script file name and press enter. It will show you the "Usage" help for further trying the same but with the command line arguments.

There is a sample PDF file sample1.pdf in the "installation/ProductDirectory/bin" directory.

Include all jar files except the demo jars in your classpath if you are running your own code sample. Otherwise, include all jars including the demo jars in the classpath.

SilentPrintPdf - is the class you use for silent printing of a PDF document.

Creating a silent printing instance

/////File: SilentPrintDemo.java//////////////        
import com.activetree.common.print.SilentPrint;
import com.activetree.pdfprint.SilentPrintPdf;
      
public class SilentPrintDemo {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    //...
    //Silent print instance
    SilentPrint silentPrint = new SilentPrintPdf();
    //...
  }
}
//End of file
      
    

Setting parameters

Silent print parameters are set by calling setAttribute(String param, Object paramValue) on the printer class.

Examples of setting parameters

    //license key
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.LICENSE_KEY, licenseKey);
    //default media size
    String paperSize = "(0, 0, 0, 0, 612, 792)";
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.PAPER, paperSize);
    //printer to print
    PrintService defaultPrintService = PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService();
    String printerName = defaultPrintService.getName();
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.PRINTER_NAME, printerName);
    //auto rotate and center
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.AUTO_ROTATE_AND_CENTER, Boolean.TRUE);
    //page scaling
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.PAGE_SCALING, SilentPrint.FIT_TO_PRINTABLE_AREA);
    //collate
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.COLLATE_COPIES, Boolean.TRUE);
    //copies defaut 1; can make it to N copies
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.COPIES, new Integer(1));
    //debug it
    //silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.DEBUG, Boolean.TRUE);
    //job name
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.JOB_NAME, "PDFSilentPrint");
    //document
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.DOC_LIST, docList);
    //Add a docListener
    //must have a default constructor for this class.
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.DOC_LISTENER, "demo.activetree.pdfprint.PdfDocListener");
    //doc password protected if any
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.PASSWORD, docPassword);
    //url protection if any
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.URL_AUTH_ID, urlAuthId);
    silentPrint.setAttribute(SilentPrint.URL_AUTH_PASSWORD, urlAuthPassword);

      //Now start the process
    try {
      silentPrint.start();
    }catch(Throwable t) {
      t.printStackTrace();
    }
   

Demo Java source files

Look at the demo source files under installation/bin/print/ for printing and installation/bin/converter/ for conversion demo samples.

Silent print PDF bytes[] content

DOC_LIST parameter is always used for for setting content to be printed. Create a java.util.List object with each element the byte[] content of the document. Follow the examples in the downloaded archive.

Details of the parameter name and its possible values are listed here.

There are several working code samples in the downloaded server archive in the "examples" directory. In the "bin" directory, for each of the code sample there is a Windows batch file (.bat) and an equivalent UNIX/LINUX shell scrip file (.sh) for running it.

Your PDF can be converted to these formats:

Document formats

Image formats

There are some PDF server examples in the downloaded server archive in its "examples" directory. We suggest you to take a look in these Java sample files and if necessary create your own custom server programs.

All conversion sample code has a corresponding BAT and SH script file in the "bin/converter" directory.

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