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Printing does not work when browser is not configured to open PDFs in the browser

Open bwaldvogel opened this issue 4 years ago • 5 comments

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Configure your browser to not open PDF documents in the browser:

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  1. Click the "Print PDF" button on https://printjs.crabbly.com/

Actual result:

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I can reproduce it on both Windows and Linux with Firefox and Chrome.

Is this a known limitation? Can this be worked around in some way?

bwaldvogel avatar Oct 21 '21 08:10 bwaldvogel

It could be related to #572. We have downgraded to v1.4.0 - before the problematic commit 72d3b78 (Remove print iframe from DOM once job is complete) - and with that version, your scenario works on our application.

@crabbly, do you intend to look into the issues caused by commit 72d3b78? There seems to be quite a lot of them!

johannks avatar Nov 02 '21 09:11 johannks

@johannks: The issue still exists even after downgrading printjs to v1.4.0.

bwaldvogel avatar Dec 07 '21 17:12 bwaldvogel

I am wondering if there is a way to overcome this honestly. if user in firefox doesnt allow a pdf to be opened in 'firefox' and its set to 'always ask' it will show a empty page in print js print dialog

daphnesmit avatar Jan 24 '22 09:01 daphnesmit

At least in my case it would already help to detect such a user preference and adjust the behavior.

bwaldvogel avatar Jan 24 '22 17:01 bwaldvogel

if you set anything except "Open in FF", there's probably no way to get it to print. Pretty annoying.

Edit: One possibility exists. When you put into iframe page rendered by PDF.js(https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/)

SendiMyrkr avatar Jul 03 '22 17:07 SendiMyrkr