A UNO dispatch command that prints the document contained in the frame
Topics
About: UNO (Universal Network Objects)
About: LibreOffice
About: Apache OpenOffice
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Starting Context
- The reader has knowledge of what 'UNO dispatch command' is and how to call one (if the URL and the arguments of the command are clear).
Target Context
- The reader will know the specifications of the UNO dispatch command.
Orientation
There are some articles that explain how to execute any UNO dispatch commands and get the whole available information from the execution, in Java, in C++, in C#, in Python, and in LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice Basic.
There are the list for the application foundations, the list for Writer, and the list for Calc of the UNO dispatch commands listed so far in this series.
Main Body
1: The Specifications
URL: .uno:Print
Description: This command prints the document contained in the frame.
Arguments (the types are UNO datum types):
| Name | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| PrinterName | string | the printer name |
| FileName | string | This argument does not seem effective. |
| Copies | short | the number of copies |
| RangeText | string | the pages range text like '1-3,4' |
| Selection | boolean | This argument does not seem effective. However, whether only the selection is printed or not can be controlled with the 'RangeText' argument: empty -> only the selection, not empty -> not only the selection (a value like '1-' can be used as a dummy). |
| Asynchron | boolean | whether the printing is done asynchronously or not |
| Collate | boolean | whether the printing is collated or not |
| Silent | boolean | whether the printing is done silently or not |
The related information (the value of com.sun.star.frame.FeatureStateEvent.State) (the types are UNO datum types):
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| N/A | void |
The result information (the value of com.sun.star.frame.DispatchResultEvent.Result) (the type is a UNO datum type):
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| N/A | void |
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