[IWE] Windows PDF printing question

[Thane Walkup]

Peter Whysall wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Barry Roomberg [mailto:broomberg@comcast.net] 
>> Sent: 09 January 2007 14:04
>> To: 'iwe@warhead.org.uk'
>> Subject: [IWE] Windows PDF printing question
>>
>>
>> I'm attempting to setup some windows based workflow which 
>> includes the 
>> requirement for printing PDFs to a Windows network based PCL printer.
>>
>> How?
>>
>> How do I tell windows to print a PDF?
>>     
>
> You don't.
>
>   
>> Under Linux it is a stright LP command and the CUPs 
>> environment figures out it 
>> is a PDF and prints it correctly.
>>
>> Does the same facility exist in windows?
>>     
>
> No. Windows does not natively understand PDF.
>
>   
>> Is it a matter of install windows ghostscript and converting 
>> it into PCL and 
>> dropping it on the \\server\printer name?
>>
>> If so, can someone point me in the command line direction for that?
>>     
>
> The Acrobat reader can do what you want when invoked from the command line.
>
> AcroRd32.exe /t path printername drivername portname
>
> Initiates Acrobat Reader, prints a file while suppressing the Acrobat print
> dialog box, then terminates Reader.
>   
I should probably also add that (from personal experience, mind you) 
I've found that if you send Acrobat a print job, then immediately send 
it another print job while it is processing the first, it will discard 
the first one and move on to the next one.  This was somewhere in the 
5.0-6.0 realm; I finally said "the heck with it" and moved on to using 
Ghostscript instead, which spawns a unique instance for each print job.