Is there anyway to cause a force print so that it opens the file as a PDF. So instead of clicking the print function on the page could the page automatically run the command when they go to the page, or just have the document viewer with no other information such as metadata or log out buttons appear on the page. This is for public use and the public should not be able to see any of the additional data nor be able to browse the repository. The customer would only like them to view the document as a PDF. If this is not possible I know we can alter the document viewer file to just display the document using css or altering the .aspx file. Though the customer would prefer to just have the document open as a PDF.

Are there other reasons aside from not wanting to show metadata etc. that the customer wants to view the document as a PDF? The customizations for that functionality are very minor:

As mentioned here, you add the following to DocView.aspx at the bottom (make a backup first!):

<script type="text/javascript">                    
	    $(document).ready(function(){ document.getElementById("FullScreenButton").click()});
</script>

You can also comment out (or remove) the "normal screen" link from the same file:

<a class="PageToolbarLink" id="NormalScreenLink" href="javascript:void(0)" runat="server">
  <div class="ToolbarIconWrapper">
      <div class="DocumentRightPanelToolbarIcon NormalScreenIcon" id="NormalScreenButton" runat="server" title="" /> 
  </div>
 </a>

Another option is to hid that in the CSS file using the id NormalScreenLink.

Once you've made the changes, just save the file and refresh the page in WebLink, and all end users will only see the fullscreen docviewer (no metadata, no logout button, etc.)

I attempted to replace the FullScreenButton id with PDFDialog_PDFDownloadLink though it only brought up the dialog box for the page range. I then attempted to add another line to do a click for the page by though it had stated that the page was out of range. Please confirm if it would be possible to only load the PDF or not by puppeteering the button clicking on the page. If it is not I will go with the alternative of using CSS to hide all the metadata panes and other panes for the document view page.

This is not a customization we've ever attempted (because there hasn't been any requests for it before now), so I can't confirm either way. Is there something that's wrong with the fullscreen mode idea? I'm still unclear why the customer wants to implement hiding metadata etc. by always automatically downloading a PDF, even when there is no PDF associated with the document.