Re: printing 2 sided pdf files w/out interaction
Re: printing 2 sided pdf files w/out interaction
- Subject: Re: printing 2 sided pdf files w/out interaction
- From: Adam Wuellner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 10:12:11 -0500
On 5/5/05, a fukzoff <email@hidden> wrote:
> Basically, what I want to do is:
>
> 1) take a bunch of pdf files (already living in a specific folder)
>
> 2) send the pdf files to a printer that supports 2 sided printing
> (which is not my default printer)
>
> 3) set the options for the 2 sided printer (i.e. long edge binding etc)
>
> 4) have the files print out without any further user interaction (i.e.
> drag the folder of files on top of the droplet, grab a cup of coffee
> and head over to our office copy machine that is doing the 2 sided
> printing etc)
>
> is something like this possible in ascript, or am I barking up the
> wrong tree?
I've done this... not with AS, but from home over SSH to a printer in
the office. I passed the PDF file through pdftops with the -duplex
option, and passed the output to lp or lpr, I don't recall. It
worked.
Sorry I can't provide more specifics, it was a while ago.
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