Auto Printing A PDF Using v7 Onwards

I have upgraded to version 10 of Acrobat and I am now having an issue with auto printing a PDF.
My objective is to load a PDF within a new browser window and for it to print to the default printer without need for the user to do anything. The user will press a button which will activate a perl program with javascript.
When I was using Acrobat 6 the PDF would print automatically but now it shows an alert stating "This document is trying to print.Do you want to allow this?". Selecting "Yes" prints it to the default printer on the machine.
The code I currently use which worked in Acrobat v6 (7 onwards it does not work) is,  prInit('this.print({bUI: false, bSilent: true, bShrinkToFit: true});');
Any help with this is appreciated.
Steve

Adobe has found others are silently or without permission  saving forms or print forms to somewhere other than the user's system.
New security restrictions have been added. See the Acrobat JS API Reference for information about creating a trusted function that is placed in an Acrobat application folder of each user needing to save or print a copy of the open PDF.
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