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batch printing

dm7en
Registered: Oct 5 2007
Posts: 3

is it possible to print pdfs in file name order ("print all" sequence sort them by time)

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0.1, Macintosh
dthanna
ExpertTeam
Registered: Sep 28 2005
Posts: 248
You would need to use the command line directives to Acrobat/Reader to initiate the print. To drive those, a quick DOS (yes, there is still a use for this old dog)nested .CMD file based on the FOR command. The outer .CMD does the appropriate DIR command, as part of the FOR statement, to return the list of PDFs in the order you want. It then calls a second .CMD file, passing the file name, that executes the appropriate Acrobat.EXE / AcroRd32.EXE command with necessary print options. A little digging through the Acrobat SDK and Windows command (e.g. c:\help for) will turn up what you are looking for.

Douglas Hanna is a member of the Production Print Technology team at Aon.
www.aonhewitt.com