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The application should fetch a PDF file from a web server and display
it to the user. The file will have been generated elsewhere, so I just
need to be able to view it and send it to a local printer. Do I need to
download an external package to do that? If so, it would be nice to know
which one is reasonably straightforward to integrate. Please note the
separate functions of acessing a remote file and displaying it in the
application. Thanks in advance.

Regards.

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Hakan Lane wrote:
>
> The application should fetch a PDF file from a web server and display it
> to the user. The file will have been generated elsewhere, so I just need
> to be able to view it and send it to a local printer. Do I need to
> download an external package to do that? If so, it would be nice to know
> which one is reasonably straightforward to integrate. Please note the
> separate functions of acessing a remote file and displaying it in the
> application. Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards.
>

Web browsers do that? You need to have Acrobat installed.

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Hakan Lane wrote:

> The application should fetch a PDF file from a web server and display it
> to the user. The file will have been generated elsewhere, so I just need
> to be able to view it and send it to a local printer. Do I need to
> download an external package to do that? If so, it would be nice to know
> which one is reasonably straightforward to integrate. Please note the
> separate functions of acessing a remote file and displaying it in the
> application. Thanks in advance.

Just identify your file as either a java.io.File or a java.net.URI
instance and you can display it directly using:

Desktop.getDesktop().browse(uri); // or file.toURI()

I am not sure if you can print it programatically from your java app,
the user probably needs to push the browser print button.

>
> Just identify your file as either a java.io.File or a java.net.URI
> instance and you can display it directly using:
>
> Desktop.getDesktop().browse(uri); // or file.toURI()
>
> I am not sure if you can print it programatically from your java app,
> the user probably needs to push the browser print button.

Thank you for the tip. The problem is that I am working with Netbeans
5.5.1, which dopes not support Java 1.6 . Would you know how to do it in
Java 1.5 environments?

Regards.

On Mar 15, 3:09*am, "H.L" <H...@operamail.com> wrote:
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> *...The problem is that I am working with Netbeans
> 5.5.1, which dopes not support Java 1.6 .

No. The 'problem' is that apparently you do not know
how to use the IDE. NetBeans supports Ant, and Ant
can compile for a later version of Java than is used
in the IDE.

But more important than what your IDE supports, what
minimum level of Java runtime is this code aimed at?

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Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On Mar 15, 3:09 am, "H.L" <H...@operamail.com> wrote:
> ...
>> ...The problem is that I am working with Netbeans
>> 5.5.1, which dopes not support Java 1.6 .
>
> No. The 'problem' is that apparently you do not know
> how to use the IDE. NetBeans supports Ant, and Ant
> can compile for a later version of Java than is used
> in the IDE.
>
> But more important than what your IDE supports, what
> minimum level of Java runtime is this code aimed at?

Besides, NetBeans 6.x is just a free download away.

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:49:39 +0100, Hakan Lane <> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

> The application should fetch a PDF file from a web server and display
>it to the user. The file will have been generated elsewhere, so I just
>need to be able to view it and send it to a local printer. Do I need to
>download an external package to do that?

The easy way would be just to download the file. see
http://mindprod.com/products.html#FILETRANSFER

Then exec adobe acrobat on it.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/exec.html
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:49:39 +0100, Hakan Lane <> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

> The application should fetch a PDF file from a web server and display
>it to the user. The file will have been generated elsewhere, so I just
>need to be able to view it and send it to a local printer. Do I need to
>download an external package to do that? If so, it would be nice to know
>which one is reasonably straightforward to integrate. Please note the
>separate functions of acessing a re

for tools to manipulate your pdf file without using Acrobat, see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/pdf.html
and chase the links.
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> for tools to manipulate your pdf file without using Acrobat, see
> http://mindprod.com/jgloss/pdf.html
> and chase the links.

There is also the PDF-Renderer (https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/) if
you only want to view a pdf files in your Java application.