Automatic pdf print from a servlet?

Hi..I have a one servlet that displays a pdf file in the browser (IE). Under normal circumstance, the user would print the pdf from the Acrobat Reader toolbar displayed within the browser. Well now, the user wants to have the pdf file printed automatically, because it is "too confusing" to choose between the browser print button and Reader's! My idea is to have the servlet contain a method for handling pdf print. Any ideas on an existing API or if this can even be done? Thanks!!

I ran into a similar situation recently and found one cheap (smells a bit like a hack) option to give the illusion of direct printing. If you embed Acrobat Reader as an object in your page then you can give it a width and height of 0, effectively hiding it. Then use the print() function to make it print from your own button in the page. Something like this:
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000" WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0 ID=MYPDF>
<PARAM NAME="SRC" VALUE="/servlet/MyServlet">
</OBJECT>
Then a button on the same page can make the pdf print.
<BUTTON name='printButton' onClick='MYPDF.print()'>Print</BUTTON>
Your confused users still have to choose that button however -- I don't think you can override the behaviour of the browser's print button.
I've heard of some plug-in called ActivePDF that might also help you but I don't know much about it (do a search).

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