JS function to print a doc file?

Question

I am trying to print a doc file located in my server using a js function. At first, I thought it is going to an easy task, but after a lot of research I can not find a way to do that.

I have tried this, but the result is a page with the url in the content of it.

$('#printItems').on('click', '.toPrint', function(e){
        console.log("Printing...");
        e.preventDefault();
        doc = $(this).attr( "href" );
        var w = window.open(doc);
        w.document.write(doc);
        w.print();
    });

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE:

I know that google doc has the option to do that. Does it convert the file to PDF and use pdf.js ?

Answer 1

I think there is no proper way to directly write in file using javascript. You can use other programming language like java,c. They providing direct access to create files and read/write them