[IWE] Windows PDF printing question

[Barry Roomberg]

Thanks.

Here is what I have so far concerning gs:

"C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.54\bin\gswin32.exe" ^
 "-IC:\Program Files\gs\gs8.54\lib;C:\Program Files\gs\fonts;C:\Program 
Files\gs\gs8.54\Resource" ^
 -dNOPAUSE ^
 -dBATCH ^
 -q ^
 -sDEVICE=ljet4 ^
 -sOutputFile=%2 ^
 %1

After I have the PCL file a straight copy to \\server\printer works fine.

How do I stop it from showing the GUI box totally?


On Tuesday 09 January 2007 9:50, Thane Walkup wrote:
> 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.
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