This is what Google Docs does. This way either the browser loads and prints it, or the adobe plugin. Yeah I'm having the issue on all browsers where the print method is undefined. Is this method outdated? Are there any other solutions? This no longer works. Chrome latest version, PDF on same domain. Show 6 more comments. Here is a function to print a PDF from an iframe.
I give my thanks to you, as you help me solved a big problem: without setTimeout , print function will fail sometimes. No idea why and hope somebody will find it out. The print method does have callback support, but it wasn't widely supported yet when you wrote this answer in It is now, though; the latest versions of all major desktop browsers support onafterprint.
I'm a little concerned that reusing an iframe may introduce race conditions where somebody clicks on two buttons quickly and ends up printing the second PDF twice because the iframe URL had already been swapped out before the first print dialog appeared.
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Is this method just outdated? John Neuhaus John Neuhaus 1, 18 18 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Dhruv Murarka Dhruv Murarka 6 6 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. This method doesn't seem to work at all for me. I need to trigger the PDF print, not the webpage print. Am I missing something? Joe Solutions Joe Solutions 11 1 1 bronze badge.
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