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Hello guys,

The title is pretty straight forward.
Let`s assume I have a Base64 string which came from a PDF.
How do I send it directly to the screen or to any printer?
Right now, I have a code that convert this Base64 to PDF and send the file to the user, but I want to print it directly.

    public void convertBase64ToPdf()
    {
        System.IO.MemoryStream memoryStream = Binary::constructFromContainer(BinData::loadFromBase64(
            base64Label)).getMemoryStream() as System.IO.MemoryStream;

        File::SendFileToUser(memoryStream, 'test.pdf');
    }

Any ideas?

Thanks

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In my blog here MSDyn365FO. How-to send PDF document to a printer from X++ – ievgen's ax blog (wordpress.com) I show how to print a file from the attachments to a printer, to do this you need to convert it to a stream so you can reause this code.

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Hello ievgen,

I tried your code it works and it send to the printers using document routing.

Do you have any idea how can I send it directly to the d365 screen?

I tried to change your code to use printMediumType(SRSPrintMediumType::Screen)

but didn't work

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Try

Browser br = new Browser();

str downloadUrl = File::SendFileToTempStore(_stream, _fileName, classstr(FileUploadTemporaryStorageStrategy), true);

if (downloadUrl != '')

{

br.navigate(downloadUrl, true, false);

}

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Just tried it, and it download the pdf file instead of opening a pdf preview or something to show on screen.

I'm not sure what I want to do is possible though

I'll keep with the printer option only for now

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Martin Dráb 237,965 Most Valuable Professional on at

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How your web browser deals with PDF files isn't the reponsibility of the web application. If you want to open PDF files in the browser rather then downloading them, configure your browser accordingly.

For example, if you're using Firefox, open Settings, scroll down to Applications, put PDF to Search file types or applications, select Portable Document Format (PDF) and set Action to Open in Firefox.

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Thank you guys.

I was expecting a way to open it like a SSRS report using the Pdf viewer from d365 or something related.

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Martin Dráb 237,965 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Aha, then "send it directly to the screen" means "showing the content of the file inside an F&O form", right?

SrsReportViewerForm uses a special type of control (Report Viewer) for this purpose.

A similar approach is used in document management, where DocuView form utilizes Document Viewer Container control. Maybe you would be able to reuse it.

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Yes, sorry to not be clearly enough.

Thank you Martin I'll check it out

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