Silent Printing with different number of copies of each page

Thom Parker has a suggestion for doing this with the Acrobat Javascript PrintParams object at: http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=3093

Another alternative would be to create a PDF Package separating your PDFs into different files. Then you can set the printing parameters under the File --> Properties (Ctrl + d windows) Advanced tab. This allows you to set the default number of copies to print for each individual PDF.

I am a newbie to iText, can you please provide some examples of making PDF packing.

And the example Thom Parker gave prints whole document for a given number of copies, but I need each page in a document to be print different number of copies like first page to be printed twice and the rest once.

What do you mean by silent print, exactly? How is a print job started?

An option is to create a PDF with however many identical pages are needed.

George

George,

In this case 'silent print' refers to not showing the print UI dialog and optionally the print progress bar.

Kota,

For the example given you need to provide a series of JavaScript statements to for each range of pages.

// get pirnter parameters and set to silent
var pp = this.getPrintParams();
pp.interactive = pp.constants.interactionLevel.silent; // no UI no progress bar

// print page 1 2 times
pp.firstPage = 0; // start at page 1
pp.lastPage = 0; // end at page 1
pp.NumCopies = 2; // 2 copies
this.print(pp); // print page 1

// print all other pages 1 time
// see if more than one page
if (this.numPages > 1) {
pp.firstPage = 1; // start at page 2
pp.lastPage = this.numPages - 1; // end at last page - computed
pp.NumCopies = 1; // 1 copy
this.print(pp); // keep everything the same and print
}

Thanks very much gkaiseril, your code worked great.