Urgent print problem

[Code Monkey]

I'm about to deploy a program that prints out Word documents. However,
due to licensing issues, we don't actaully have Word 2003 or Office
2003 installed on the machine - only the free Word Viewer (Microsoft
Office Word Viewer 2003).

I'm just wondering if the following should be possible, because it
doesn't appear to work:
assuming with have

<code>
public enum ShowCommands : int
{
SW_HIDE = 0,
SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1,
SW_NORMAL = 1,
SW_SHOWMINIMIZED = 2,
SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3,
SW_MAXIMIZE = 3,
SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE = 4,
SW_SHOW = 5,
SW_MINIMIZE = 6,
SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE = 7,
SW_SHOWNA = 8,
SW_RESTORE = 9,
SW_SHOWDEFAULT = 10,
SW_FORCEMINIMIZE = 11,
SW_MAX = 11
}

[DllImport("shell32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr ShellExecute(
IntPtr hwnd,
string lpOperation,
string lpFile,
string lpParameters,
string lpDirectory,
ShowCommands nShowCmd);
</code>

then surely, if I want to print the document to WordView (or whatever
application is registered to '.doc' filetype) I would do the following:

<code>
String sFileToPrint = @"C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\119671.doc";
ShellExecute(IntPtr.Zero, "print", sFileToPrint, "", "",
ShowCommands.SW_SHOW);
</code>

This works fine on a machine with Word 2003 installed, but when I put
it on a machine with just Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2003 on it,
nothing happens.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Dave.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately wordview doesn't support shell printing. Nor does it support
command line printing. Nor COM objects. About the only thing it seems
capable of is actually clicking "File->Print".

I've made a kludge that makes it work with keyboard emulation, but honestly
I'm ashamed to even ADMIT that, let alone actually use it Although if
you've found another way around the problem I'd love to hear it.

Jim

 

[Code Monkey]

I've had to send keystrokes to wordview because it's the only thing
that seemed to work. Kind of embarassing really! Oh well!