Printing External Documents

[Guest]

We are running some kiosks and I want the option for users to press a button
on screen and have it print a document (i.e. a PDF file without opening
Acrobat, or a Word document without opening Word) and have it go to the
default printer without any other user interaction. Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

We are running some kiosks and I want the option for users to press a button
on screen and have it print a document (i.e. a PDF file without opening
Acrobat, or a Word document without opening Word) and have it go to the
default printer without any other user interaction. Any ideas?

Some programs, including several versions of Acrobat Reader and some of the
Office apps, let you print to the default printer from the command line:

C:\Path\To\Acroread.exe /p filename.pdf

Without opening the application though? You might be able to automate Word
into opening invisibly; I don't think Reader offers this ability. A full copy
of Acrobat might, as it can be automated.

You can't print from an application w/o opening it, if only invisibly.