How to print PDFs automatically

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We have a number of systems that produce PDFs that need to be printed. These are stored on a central document store. A message then goes onto a JMS queue that the document needs printing. A service, written in Java , picks these up and then invokes a native command. This is to call Adobe Reader with the /t flag. This causes the document to print without the GUI showing. However since a power cut this no longer works. In the interim we are having to manually print hundreds of documents. We originally tried using Java printing, but the PDFs came out malformed. What is a better solution to this?

Accepted Answer

This code only works if the printer supports PDF. Otherwise you need to use a native printer or a Java library. There is a blog article on this at http://pdf.jpedal.org/java-pdf-blog/bid/25566/Printing-PDF-files-from-Java

How to print PDFs automatically

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