Re: PDF Printing support from Python



On 2005-04-22, dcrespo <dcrespo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all... Is there a way to print a PDF file directly from
> Python without having Acrobat installed?

Assuming your printing system was setup competently:

os.system("lpr %s" % filename)

> I know about ReportLab. It's a python module that lets you
> create almost any PDF document, but I still don't know if it
> supports printing, so I'm looking for a Python module that
> could do it. I want to print a PDF file just like if I were
> doing it from Acrobat.

Not sure what you mean by "just like if I were doing it from
Acrobat".

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