Use Autoit to permit print

[pcouturier]

Hi,

I want to setup a public computer to be used to print a web based form. Is there is a way with Autoit to permit printing but only from a specified site. That if they try to print a Word document for exemple or from another website then our specified page, the print function would be disabled.

Is this possible and how?

[JLogan3o13]

Hi, pcouturier. The problem I see with your path is, if the user is trying to print from another application such as Word, AutoIt is not controlling the function. You would have to have the script running all the time, and try to intercept the call to the printer, regardless of what application made the call (which could be both difficult and detrimental to whatever the user is doing in the other application).

If you're using a guest account (since this sounds like a kiosk situation) you could deny the guest accound "print" permission. In your script, you would then need to make your printer call using elevated credentials (RunAs).

[martin]

I think it might not be so difficult. First you can set the printer, or lack of it, depending on the application. I wrote a udf for doing this and although it is old it might still work. Search for 'psycho' in example scripts.

Secondly, assuming you prevent the user controlling it, the printed output will have the title of the web page, so anything that doesn't have this title can be prevented.

If you set the printer to be a pdf printer then the file created will have the webpage as it's name. You could then print that out if it was allowed and then either way delete it or save it as a reference of what was printed.

[JLogan3o13]

Very nice UDF, Martin. Can't believe I've never stumbled across that one before

[martin]

Thanks JLogan3o13.

You need to be completely lost to stumble across that I would think