Printing via JPedal reduces image size when printed

Classic Servoy
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I have managed to get Paul Bakker’s script working to print pdfs directly from Blob fields. I had to use the old jpedal bean from the servoy site as the new one doesn’t seem to work.

It still comes up with No %%Bounding Box errors, but apart from asking on the printer to load letter before printing, it works on mac and windows.

The main issue I have is that the size of the printed letters is scaled to about 80% at an estimate, so they dont fit in envelopes properly. The same PDF prints fine if i download it and then print, but I am trying to run a daily printer Q from the solution so that letters can go directly into an enveloping machine.

Has anyone else tried this or has had the same problem, and is there a solution?

David

function print_singledocument(event) {

try 
{ 
	//elements.bean_482.openPdfArray(pdf)
	application.output('Hello');
	var docflavor = Packages.javax.print.DocFlavor;
   var service = docflavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED
   var pageble = service.PAGEABLE; 
   
   var defaultService = Packages.javax.print.PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService(); 
   if ( defaultService != null ) 
   { 
      var job = defaultService.createPrintJob(); 

     // var decodePDF = elements.bean_482; //uncomment if you have the PDFEncoder bean on your form


      var decodePDF = new Packages.org.jpedal.PdfDecoder(true); //comment out if you have the PDFEncoder bean on your form
      decodePDF.openPdfArray(pdf); //comment out if you have the PDFEncoder bean on your form

      var pageCount = decodePDF.getPageCount(); 
      decodePDF.setPagePrintRange(1,pageCount); 
      application.output(pageCount);
      var doc = new Packages.javax.print.SimpleDoc(decodePDF, pageble, null);
      job.print( doc, null ); 
   } 
} 
catch ( e ) 
{ 
   application.output(e.toString());
}

}
2

You could print via command line, although its a bit more work (but will most likely be more accurate since it will use Acrobat to do the pdf)

Windows: http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup. … /52080.htm
Mac: http://www.servoyguy.com/code_repositor … _a_printer

3

Thanks Scott,

you may well be correct. I will have a go.

David