Symptom
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If PDF files are generated through a PowerBuilder application, how do you print them?
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How to print a collection of PDF files from PowerBuilder?
Environment
Microsoft Windows 7 x64
Solution
If your application has generated one or several PDFs you can launch a batch file that cycles through all the PDF files in a directory and prints them using Adobe Acrobat.
The batch file PrintPDFs.bat has the following contents: FOR %%c IN (%1) DO CALL PrintPDF.bat %%c this file, in turn, launches PrintPDF.bat that will actually prints an individual PDF and has the following contents: START AcroRd32.exe /h /p %1 TASKKILL /IM AcroRd32.exe Running the sample:
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Unzip PrintPDFs.zip into a local directory
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Open pdfprint.pbw in PB IDE
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Set your default printer
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Run the application
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Click on "Print PDFs" command button
