Hi,

I was wondering if it is possibile to send a pdf document directly to 
the printer  without using Acrobat and without opening the document itself.

Thanks

LuKe

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if it is possibile to send a pdf document directly to
> the printer  without using Acrobat and without opening the document
itself.
>
> Thanks
>
> LuKe

With some PostScript 3 printers/controllers it works, but not all. Also, a
lot of office printers don't support PostScript (and also not PDF), but PCL
or other languages.

What printer do you want to use?

Waldo

Hi Luke,

Yes,  but you will need some other 3rd party software.  If you have a high
volume or batch requirement, my OctoTools may do the job, but you'd want to
take advantage of its additional capabilities to justify the cost.

Larry T.

Waldo wrote:

> With some PostScript 3 printers/controllers it works, but not all. Also, a
> lot of office printers don't support PostScript (and also not PDF), but PCL
> or other languages.
> 
> What printer do you want to use?
> 
> Waldo
> 
> 

Any printer!

I'm looking for a program that reads the pdf document and send it to the 
default printer. All that should be transparent for the user.

ByE

LuKe

LuKe wrote:
> Waldo wrote:
> 
>> With some PostScript 3 printers/controllers it works, but not all. 
>> Also, a
>> lot of office printers don't support PostScript (and also not PDF), 
>> but PCL
>> or other languages.
>>
>> What printer do you want to use?
>>
>> Waldo
>>
>>
> 
> Any printer!
> 
> I'm looking for a program that reads the pdf document and send it to the 
> default printer. All that should be transparent for the user.

Xpdf: http://www.foolabs/xpdf/
CUPS: http://www.cups.org/

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> Waldo wrote:
>
> > With some PostScript 3 printers/controllers it works, but not all. Also,
a
> > lot of office printers don't support PostScript (and also not PDF), but
PCL
> > or other languages.
> >
> > What printer do you want to use?
> >
> > Waldo
> >
> >
>
> Any printer!
>
> I'm looking for a program that reads the pdf document and send it to the
> default printer. All that should be transparent for the user.
>

In that case you are definitely going to need something that will read and
interpret PDF. Acrobat Reader is reasonably ubiquitous, ghostscript is also
free and supports a range of printers.

Tom.