Printing a server file to client side printer

[Shruti Gongle]

Help!!!
I want to print a file which is on my server to a printer on client side.I wrote a servlet for it...but the page got printed on the server side.Does anyone know how to do this....
I hope this does not sound a stupid query...

[Peter Kristensson]

What you have here isn't really a JSP-question.
I suggest that you display the file in the browser (on the client) and have the user press file -> print, or supply some "print" button using javascript, do a search on "print" on javascript.internet.com, I tried and got 45 hits.

[Shruti Gongle]

Thanks much Peter for your prompt response.The solution u have given is right but my case is a bit different. To tell the details...i am fiddling with Jasper Reports . Its a very good tool for report generation using java. U can create PDF/XML reports and aslo u can create a file which is in ready to print format. So on my web page i want to give the users an option to directly print a file. As it is if i show the user the PDF file he can directly print the report. But i wanna try out direct print....have u done any thing of this sort???

[s.r.k.reddy]

If at all it is printing on the browser then obviously the report will appear on the browser, It's COM.
If this is the case then the javascript
//This can make automatically print a doc on the client side;
//Never tried but can you insert this HTML in the output which is pdf?
<script type="text/javascript">
if(window.print)
window.print()
else
alert("no printer found");
</script>
may be of no use; as the pdf is a independent component embedded on HTML, if at all we try using javascript then it cannot completely print the document as it will just print the window I Guess...Never tried...

[Shruti Gongle]

Can anyone tell me how to print a server side file on the client side without displaying it on the client side browser???