Example of actually printing a PDF file?

[gduprey]

So arguably this is likely a documentation issue more than a problem (I hope), but the docs mention that you just pass a File as the content (and presumably application/pdf as the content type), but I canntot get that to work (I get errors about "no implicit conversion of nil into String" from within net/http/generic_request).

I also see other issues where it looks like folks are encoding the PDF content into base64 ahead of time - not sure if that is a choice of a necessity.

So any chance of an example of what you need to minimally print a PDF file via the gem would be much appreciated!

[gduprey]

Well, it appears that PDF print works OK (had to think it did or theer would have been a bigger deal in the issues), but you do have to include a ticket hash. So assuming you have a PDF file called test.pdf,

cloud_printer.print(content: File.open('test.pdf', 'r'), content_type: 'application/pdf', ticket: { version: '1.0', print: { } })

Seems to be the minimum. There are plenty of options to the printer job (copies, using the duplexer, scaling/fitting, etc) that are described in the CJT (Cloud Job Ticket) section of the google cloud print API docs.

[dilkhush]

@gduprey I have updated the read me with a sample request that takes all the parameters like copies, duplexer, etc.

See this https://github.com/thegengen/cloudprint/pull/31/files for more information

@thegengen Please See this PR

[thegengen]

Thank you. PR merged!