PrintHelper Support for PDF Files [36995603]

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mm...@commonsware.com

created issue #1

May 18, 2014 01:43PM

The Android 4.4 printing framework is centered around PDF files... yet does not provide an API for printing a PDF file generated outside of the Android SDK. Printing a bitmap or Web document may be too limiting; printing using a Canvas per page may be too complex. Between libraries and Web services, there are many options for generating a PDF file for printing, yet we have no good way to pass those PDFs to PrintManager.

It is possible to hack together a solution like:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/20719729/115145

However, this solution assumes that you know the number of pages in the PDF file, and it assumes that we can safely ignore the PageRange[] supplied to onWrite() and just blindly write all pages out to the ParcelFileDescriptor.

It would be useful if PrintHelper had a printPdf() method, or there were some other way of just handing a PDF file to Android to be printed.

Thanks!

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js...@android.com <js...@android.com> May 27, 2014 08:13PM

Assigned to sv...@android.com.

mo...@google.com <mo...@google.com> #2Mar 24, 2016 12:13AM

Status: Won't Fix (Infeasible)

PrintDocumentAdapter as described in the stackoverflow link is indeed the way to go. Android does not currently provide APIs to edit PDFs. If you need such functionality I would recommend to embed a pdf library such as

https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/ into your app.

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js...@android.com <js...@android.com> May 27, 2014 08:13PM

mo...@google.com <mo...@google.com> #2Mar 24, 2016 12:13AM

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