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How to invoke Print Dialog from a web page without displaying the report

Environment

Product Progress® Telerik® Reporting

Description

Print a report directly at client-side without displaying it in the web page.

Solution

The general approach is explained and demonstrated in the Print a report directly at client-side without displaying it in a Viewer.

To avoid displaying the PDF report on the page, instead of creating a response that will update the current page, use an invisible iframe attached run time, where to open the generated PDF. The PDF document should be saved in a folder accessible by the application, so that the src attribute of the iframe can point to the file.

Sample ASP.NET Web Forms projects :

ClientPrintingCSharp.zip

ClientPrintingVB.zip

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