Printing without knowing page numbers?

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I'm seconds away from purchasing a license as well as releasing a very standard ASPX example to the community with a very common usage situation:
Person views PDF on prior page
Person selects Printer name from drop down
PDF prints on next page with a "ajax style animated gif" while it prints.

One problem.  I'm printing the PDF using the active x PrintDocument call from this page:

 http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/help/quickpdf/PrintDocument.php

Unfortunately it requires page number information.  My use case is that 100% of the time the pageCount is never cared about or known.  

Is there a -1 or 0 or something that we can pass in as to not have to know about it?

Function QuickPDF0718.PDFLibrary::PrintDocument(PrinterName As String, 
  StartPage As Long, EndPage As Long, Options As Long) As Long

Edited by corecomps - 28 Mar 10 at 10:00PM

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corecomps Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 16 Sep 09 Status: Offline Points: 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote corecomps Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Printing without knowing page numbers? Posted: 28 Mar 10 at 9:53PM
	I'm seconds away from purchasing a license as well as releasing a very standard ASPX example to the community with a very common usage situation: Person views PDF on prior page Person selects Printer name from drop down PDF prints on next page with a "ajax style animated gif" while it prints. One problem. I'm printing the PDF using the active x PrintDocument call from this page: http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/help/quickpdf/PrintDocument.php Unfortunately it requires page number information. My use case is that 100% of the time the pageCount is never cared about or known. Is there a -1 or 0 or something that we can pass in as to not have to know about it? Function QuickPDF0718.PDFLibrary::PrintDocument(PrinterName As String, StartPage As Long, EndPage As Long, Options As Long) As Long Edited by corecomps - 28 Mar 10 at 10:00PM

Paddy Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 24 Mar 10 Status: Offline Points: 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote Paddy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 Mar 10 at 6:03AM
	So do you want to print all pages in the document? I presume that's the case since any other option doesn't make sense from what you've described so far. You have to include a start page and an end page, but this is simple. The start page is 1 and to get the end page you simply call QP.PageCount() which will return the total number of pages in the document as an int -- the total number of pages is equal to the last page in the document. E.g. QP.PrintDocument(GetPrinterName, 1, QP.PageCount(), GetPrintOptions); HTH!

corecomps Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 16 Sep 09 Status: Offline Points: 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote corecomps Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 Mar 10 at 4:09AM
	Thanks for the tip. I was looking for a quick way to get the page count. Obviously missed a very easy function call. BTW< tested and works perfectly. I'll release my demo code shortly.