This is really dumb and overly simple, which is probably why it was missed/not
brought up, but it just occurred to me that, assuming you have a browser-based
interface to your app, why don't you just send the PDF to the browser for
printing? Then it should use the Acrobat Reader plugin to open
David.. I think I accidentally deleted your last message, but I believe you
said something about Acrobat not closing after it gets done printing. Here are
a few thoughts:
1. If you right click on something and select "print" and it performs the
command line action listed in the registry as men
Not sure how this might work in PHP, but there is something called WSH
(go to MS and poke around) that gives you access to a ton of really
interesting Windows bits and pieces. The following is a script I run in
Lotus Notes (LotusScript is rather like VBA) and it allows you to set
the default print
Two (and a half) things:
1. Even though DOS/Windows machines don't have, specifically, /dev/printer or
/dev/lpr or whatever the *nix specific is, it does have a LPTx: device
According to the page listed below, it may be possible to do:
copy /b filename LPTx
The /b indicates it's a binary file.
