In Windows, the only way I know of printing pdf documents is using the
'/p' command line option. Actually, if you wanted to print a document
123.pdf you might use;
AcroRd32 /p /t 123.pdf or if you use acrobat
Acrobat /p /t 123.pdf
This will leave the acrobat opened and seems 'messy' to me. It would
eat up memory real quick. On my PC it opens an occurrence for every
print you execute. It also uses the default printer ('/t' - suppress
asking). Not a real solution in my opinion.
In Linux we are doing something similar. What I do is to convert the
PDF to Postscript via the command
acroread -toPostScript 123.pdf /tmp/123.ps
lp -dmy_postscript_laser /tmp/123.ps
rm -rf /tmp/123.ps
rm -rf 123.pdf
The only thing here is that you need a Postscript enabled printer. We
are going to be evaluating a Xerox 4350 laser printer that actually is
said to print PDF files natively (probably just converts to postscript
by itself). So, if you can get a PDF cabable printer it makes things
even easier. In Windows you would just do a "print d:/my_pdf_laser
123.pdf" and off it goes.
One other thing you should consider is how to do reprints easily. One
thing about printers is that they jam, run out of paper etc..
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Tod
Sigafoos
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 1:52 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] Printing PDF from uv
I must say this has been a very interesting project .. learned lots of
great stuff (some from this group) and had to come up with many work
arounds .. i can feel the brain cells firing.
Now .. how to print a PDF to a specific printer ..
is there a way to do this from universe? 10.0.1 on windows
Primarily the client has a shipping package running under windows which
uses ODBC to update the uniVerse table with shipping info. There is a
trigger on this table which we will enhance to generate the PDFs (postal
forms etc) and then once generated (by the trigger
process) we want UV to 'print' the PDF form to a specific printer.
I am looking for ideas, directions etc to get this working .. everything
is cool except the printing bits ..
Thanks again
--
DSig
David Tod Sigafoos
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