Ask HN: Browser print dialog programming or other ways
We are working with a world wide company for almost 20 years and a few of the countries are still using IE7 with our old version for some reason.
The reason is to have ActiveX and use ScriptX to manipulate print dialog box on IE7.
Client users are printing hundreds of invoices daily and each invoice or report uses different paper size and orientation, and users dont want to set print dialog settings each time they print. So, in that time, we implemented ScriptX for that purpose and everyone was happy.
But in time, we updated our web application to work with all modern browsers and we moved to IE11 and ignored all prev. IE versions.
After this point and with multi browser support, there is no more activex and vbscript involved. It means we can no longer use Active and ScriptX for this a few countries but they insist to have this printing functionality because time is very important for them.
Now we are stuck and i cant offer any solution because i dont know how to handle such printing support on all modern browsers or cant find any samples over this area on google.
I need some advice or even maybe samples and i am sure this cant be the first time someone had such request. I am almost sure, many companies wants this behavior and i am sure there is a solution out there but cant figure it out what is it.
It can be anything, even a new application or something that we can write and install on client pc to handle this behavior.
I am not narrowing what i need because i dont know any single solution, so i am open to all suggestions and i can write anything to have this functionality.
I hope, i explained the situation cleary, if not, please let me know so i can give more details.