Printing in PDFing
PDFing can automatically print the PDF files it creates to any windows printer,
You may notice the "tickler" text added to each printed page.
In order to remove this text, you must have a valid
NT Service
license-key.
The PDF printing component is licensed by us from:
Glyph & Cog, LLC.
The "entry level" version of PDFing does not include this component.
If you require it, you must install the full version from
our download page.
The
[Destination] page of the
Configuration and
Markup forms,
contain the following new controls:
- Printer name
-
You may select or enter the name of a windows printer. If no printer is selected,
then the default printer will be used.
- Copies:
-
You may you to select from zero to nine copies of the print-out.
If you want a PDF to print, you must select some number of copies
greater than zero.
- Color:
-
Force either color or monochrome printing,
this is sometimes required for network printers. The default, AUTO, selects the
default color mode of the printer.
- Tray:
-
Select the tray from which paper is loaded.
You may enter either the name or number of the tray. A blank entry selects
the default tray of the printer.
- Bin:
-
Select the bin into which the printed paper
is dumped. You may enter either the name or number of the bin. A blank entry selects
the default bin of the printer.
- Duplex:
-
Select double-sided printing.
The default, AUTO, selects the default duplex mode of the selected printer.
The SIMPLEX selection switches double-sided printing off.
- DPI:
-
Select the quality of printed output
in terms of dots-per-inch. A zero entry selects the default dots-per-inch
setting of the printer.
If you want PDFing to select a printer or printers based on some attribute of the
spooled-file, the
Mail-list page of the
markup form, contains the following controls:
- Printer look-up:
-
Select one of the pre-defined special values: *CODE, *FILENAME, *FORMTYPE
or *USERDATA and the corresponding attribute value from each spooled-file will be
used to select any corresponding printer-name(s) from the mail-list specified below.
You may also enter special characters here,
so that a spooled-file with particular attribute values is printed on particular printer(s).
- In mail-list:
-
Select the Mail-List used to look-up the printer names
corresponding to the Printer look-up value. Leave this control blank
to use the Mail-List with the same name as the markup file.
- Default:
-
Select the default action to be taken when no printer-name is found in the mail-list.
In cases where you need to distinguish between a printer-name and other document
destinations you must prefix printer names with "-p". After this prefix
"-p" you may specify any of the following parameters:
- cnn,
- Number of copies
- ccnn,
- Number of copies, copies are generated by the printer-driver
- fc,
- Force color
- fm,
- Force monochrome
- tname,
- Tray name or number
- bname,
- Bin name or number
- dv,
- Duplex vertical
- dh,
- Duplex horizontal
- ds,
- Duplex simplex or off
- qnnnn,
- Quality in dots per inch
- rn-n,
- Range of pages to print. Where "r2" prints page 2 only,
"r2-4" prints pages 2 through 4 and "2-"
prints pages 2 through to the last page.
Note that each separate parameter must be terminated by a comma ","
character. The text after the last comma "," character is the printer name.
So an example of a printer address looks like:
-p c2, fm, q1200, HP LaserJet
Which directs PDFing to print two copies to an HP LaserJet at 1200 dots-per-inch
in monochrome. When a printer address is specified in a configuration control
or instruction tag which unambiguously requires a printer address, then the prefix
"-p" may be omitted. However, if a printer address is specified in a
control or instruction tag where the document destination could be an
email address or disk directory, then the printer address must be
prefixed by "-p".
A printer address may be specified as the value for any of the following
tags.
-
EMA= email address (the prefix "-p" is required)
-
EMN= notification address (the prefix "-p" is required)
-
EPN= printer-name (the prefix "-p" is optional)
When
*LIST*
is specified for the
EPN= value,
only printer addresses will be selected.
When
*LIST*
is specified for the
EMA= or
EMN= values
all addresses
(including any printer addresses) will be selected.
Because the printing component is an "ActiveX/Com", it must be registered.
PDFing will attempt to register the component during installation. If this cannot
be performed automatically, when you use the printer controls for the first time,
PDFing will automatically locate and "register" the printing component.
If PDFing cannot find the components within its home folder, a dialog-box will open
and you may the select the file for yourself. Alternatively, you can run the batch-file:
\PDFing\Res\XpdfPrintInstall.bat to register the component.
