On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Dave Davis wrote:
Interesting.
How long did it take to write a compliant reader?
It took YEARS. And I don't claim to be finished.
We handle the problem in #8 with a Catalog entry in the PDF file.
I assume you're referring to the fit-to-page setting. But my understanding
is that you can set the printing preferences to a) edge-to-edge, or b)
default, which means to behave according to the reader's default setting.
There is NOT a way to set it to always shrink to fit. If I'm wrong, please
provide specifics.
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Subject: Re: [U2] How do you print a ".pdf" from inside a Unix Box
Sometimes the hardest information to find is that what you want to do isn't
possible. So let me tell you what is and what isn't possible, in printing PDFs
in Windows.
1) You can OPEN a PDF based on its file extension. From the command line, you can simply type type pathname
of the PDF. From Windows Explorer, you can double-click. These use a system in Windows called "file
associations". Specifically here, you're using the OPEN verb. In the Windows registry there is a command
associated with ".PDF" and "open"; typically it runs Adobe Reader. Once open, it is up to
the user to print the file.
2) You can also execute the command string yourself, if you know what EXE to
use. That is what you cited in a later email.
3) In Windows Explorer, you can also right-click on a PDF and select "Print", to cause Windows to print the
file on the default printer. This is using the "print" verb in the file association. Behind the scenes, this
will run a command, typically running Adobe Reader with a "/p" parameter (for "print").
4) There is NOT an equivalent way to do this from the command line.
5) You can create a shortcut to a specific printer on your desktop. Then you
can drag a PDF to this shortcut, and it MAY print on this
(non-default) printer. This uses the less-documented "printto" verb in the
system of file associations. Support in Reader for printing in this way has varied by
version.
6) There is NOT an equivalent way to do this from the command line.
7) You MIGHT be able to invoke Reader with some command line parameters to
cause it to print on a specific printer. Results may vary by version.
8) NONE of these will let you control various output options in Reader, such as
whether the report should be shrunk to fit the printable page.
9) All of these assume that the PDF file to be printed exists on the Windows
PC, or is accessible to it, such as via Samba. None will pull the file from an
HTTP or FTP server.
Bottom line is that there is not a good and convenient way to do this using
Windows commands.
However, we offer a solution, in the form of our Print Wizard product.
Consider the following command:
printwiz.exe http://somehost.com/somefile.pdf /p"My laserjet printer"
This will bring up printwiz.exe, which will fetch the PDF from the http server
into memory (never being stored on the local disk), and print it to the
specified printer. Printwiz is doing the PDF interpretation itself, it is not
using any Adobe or other products.
There are a huge number of other options, such as shrink-to-fit, page range,
multiple copies, password entry, preview, watermarking, form overlaying, and
more.
See www.anzio.com for more details and a free demo.
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Bruce Conway - Bamac LTD wrote:
I may have missed this discussion but if someone can help me that
would be great.
We have been executing a SB command to windows to open Adobe and print
the PDF document. We would like to either not have to open Adobe and
print the document or print the document from within our Unix box.
We have a hp7640 11iv3 running on an Itanium processor.
Here is the Unidata information:
Module Name Version Licensed
UniData RDBMS............ 7.2 Yes
Connection Pooling....... 7.2 No
Device License........... 7.2 No
NFA...................... 7.2 No
RFS...................... 7.2 No
EDA...................... 7.2 No
721
Oh, love this list, I have been using Pick since 1985 and still going
strong.
Bruce
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