[IWE] Re: PDF printing question

[Barry Roomberg]

Don't worry, be happy.

#1 - I use PDFCreator to creat the background from and Excel spreadsheet, 
works great.
#2 - I then use a Perl script with lots of arguments to lay the data out.
Here is an example of the driver file:

687|67|Times-Bold|14|txtJobType
"|86|"|"|txtJobID
"|180|"|"|txtCustomer
"|356|"|"|txtSegment
"|472|"|"|Today
!now Today
-35|112|"|"|dtpPrintDueDate
"|298|"|"|dtpMailDate
"|484|"|"|txtStartSeq
-33|112|"|"|USERNAME
"|298|"|"|cmbAccountManager
"|484|"|"|txtEndSeq
!env USERNAME

Many more fields to follow.
The number are X/Y co-oords or font size, and I allow math or repetition dto 
pull from the previous entry.

I then run the PDF through ghostscript, and then simply 
"copy out.pcl \\server\printer" which prints fine.

All from my interactive C# application.

Or, if the user checks the right box, I call acrobat for display and then let 
them choose the windows printer and pritner interactivel.


#




On Thurs

day 11 January 2007 10:12, Skip wrote:
> From: Barry Roomberg <broomberg@comcast.net>
>
> > To: "'iwe@warhead.org.uk'" <iwe@warhead.org.uk>
> > Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:03:46 -0500
> > Subject: [IWE] Windows PDF printing question
> > Reply-To: iwe@warhead.org.uk
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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?
>
> There's always pdfcreator; dunno how well it works, though.
>
> http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
>
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