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Bob
Asked: 2009-07-30 10:46:53 +0800 CST

How to automate PDF printing

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I'm looking to automate the printing of PDF's from a Windows 2008 Server to an IPP Printer.

  • Are there any options for PDF printing built directly into the OS?
  • Does anyone have experience with good PDF printing command line utilities?
  • Is it possible to automate this using Adobe Reader?
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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Acrobat Reader has a "quiet" parameter, so you could do:

    AcroRd32.exe /t "C:\test.pdf" "\\servername\printername"

    in your batch file to print out pdfs from the command line.

    Something like 

    for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir /b *.pdf') do printit.bat %%a

    Where printit.bat uses prints using reader then deletes the file (if you want it to).

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  2. If you want to watch a directory you could use WatchDirectory which seems to support automatic PDF printing in conjunction with Adobe Reader.

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