There are two commonly-used ways for producing paper printouts:
Create PDF via PDF/FOP processing and make it available in the user's browser. This is what the example in the section The First PDF Document does.
Directly print FOP to a server side printer. This is what this section is about.
Server side printing is done via the interface
IPDFFOPService:
public interface IPDFFOPService
{
public String generateXSLFO();
public byte[] generatePDF();
public void print(String printerName) throws FOPPrintException;
public byte[] generatePDFfromFOXML();
public ILog getLog();
public Protocol getProtocol();
public String getTranslationFileName();
}
By using the method print(...), you can send a
document directly to a printer.
