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PrintDocument
class PrintDocument
This class represents a printed document from the perspective of a print service. It exposes APIs to query the document and obtain its data.
Note: All methods of this class must be executed on the main application thread.
Summary
Public methods
getData
fun getData(): ParcelFileDescriptor?
Gets the data associated with this document.
Note: It is a responsibility of the client to open a stream to the returned file descriptor, fully read the data, and close the file descriptor.
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Last updated 2025-02-10 UTC.
[null,null,["Last updated 2025-02-10 UTC."],[],[],null,["# PrintDocument\n\nAdded in [API level 19](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels)\n\nPrintDocument\n=============\n\n*** ** * ** ***\n\nKotlin \\|[Java](/reference/android/printservice/PrintDocument \"View this page in Java\") \n\n```\nclass PrintDocument\n```\n\n|---|-----------------------------------------|\n| [kotlin.Any](https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-any/index.html) ||\n| ↳ | [android.printservice.PrintDocument](#) |\n\nThis class represents a printed document from the perspective of a print service. It exposes APIs to query the document and obtain its data.\n\n**Note:** All methods of this class must be executed on the main application thread.\n\nSummary\n-------\n\n| Public methods ||\n|-----------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| [ParcelFileDescriptor](../os/ParcelFileDescriptor.html#)? | [getData](#getData())`()` Gets the data associated with this document. |\n| [PrintDocumentInfo](../print/PrintDocumentInfo.html#) | [getInfo](#getInfo())`()` Gets the [PrintDocumentInfo](../print/PrintDocumentInfo.html#) that describes this document. |\n\nPublic methods\n--------------\n\n### getData\n\nAdded in [API level 19](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels) \n\n```\nfun getData(): ParcelFileDescriptor?\n```\n\nGets the data associated with this document.\n\n**Note:** It is a responsibility of the client to open a stream to the returned file descriptor, fully read the data, and close the file descriptor.\n\n| Return ||\n|-----------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| [ParcelFileDescriptor](../os/ParcelFileDescriptor.html#)? | A file descriptor for reading the data. This value may be `null`. |\n\n### getInfo\n\nAdded in [API level 19](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels) \n\n```\nfun getInfo(): PrintDocumentInfo\n```\n\nGets the [PrintDocumentInfo](../print/PrintDocumentInfo.html#) that describes this document.\n\n| Return ||\n|-------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|\n| [PrintDocumentInfo](../print/PrintDocumentInfo.html#) | The document info. This value cannot be `null`. |"]]
