Re: Printing PDF's from the Command Prompt

Mark Case wrote:
I need to print a PDF document from a scheduled task - I know that Acrobat
has a couple of command line switches to do this, but in my testing, the
Acrobat application dialog starts and stays open even after the document
prints. Is there a library callable from Tcl that will allow me to do this?
In addition, I need to be able print to multiple printers.


How about ghostscript? It's 100% commandline if you want it to be.

gswin32c -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=mswinpr2
-sOutputFile="%printer%printer_name" -dNoCancel -f yourFile.pdf

Where printer_name is exactly as it appears in the Printers control panel,
including spaces.

I wish GS was better documented as it is incredibly powerful. Even a simple
'rotate 90 degrees' is this added bit of bizzaro: -c "<</Orientation 3>>
setpagedevice"

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