Debenu Quick PDF Library - PDF SDK Community Forum : Batch Printing http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 04 May 2026 08:22:59 +0000 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:36:01 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.01 360 www.quickpdf.org/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=354 <![CDATA[Debenu Quick PDF Library - PDF SDK Community Forum]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/forum_images/QPDF_Forum_Title.png http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ <![CDATA[Batch Printing : OK. I&#039;ll do it. ]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1510.html#1510 Author: jabaltie
Subject: 354
Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 2:36PM

OK. I'll do it. ]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:36:01 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1510.html#1510 <![CDATA[Batch Printing : Hi! Why you don&#039;t post your...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1508.html#1508 Author: Ingo
Subject: 354
Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 2:28PM

Hi!
Why you don't post your messages in the help-section ;-)
Best regards,
Ingo
]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:28:00 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1508.html#1508 <![CDATA[Batch Printing : I guess I dont need the suggested...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1504.html#1504 Author: jabaltie
Subject: 354
Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 11:53AM

I guess I dont need the suggested program PrintFile, as long as I have a PostScript3 capable printer.

Say that I generate the PDF as a file.

Then I load the whole file as a string.

Then I send the string directly to the printer.

Wouldn't that work ?

Who needs PrintFile ?

]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:53:24 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1504.html#1504 <![CDATA[Batch Printing : A couple of notes: If you will...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1503.html#1503 Author: chicks
Subject: 354
Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 11:18AM

A couple of notes:

If you will routinely be printing large batches of PDF files, you will want to seriously look into investing in a PostScript 3 printer. These printers can NATIVELY print PDF files - no need to render from PDF to the printer's language, which is always time- and memory-intensive.

There are many expensive software tools available to facilitate batch printing, but a favorite of mine is the free PrintFile: http://www.lerup.com/printfile/

It was originally written to send PostScript files directly to PostScript printers, but will also do the same for PDF files to PostScript 3 printers.

BTW, the process you are describing is called Variable Data Publishing (VDP), and there are many commerical VDP solutions available. One that has recently been reduced in price (for the desktop version) and looks quite interesting is here: http://www.printable.com/vdp/


Edited by chicks]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:18:55 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1503.html#1503 <![CDATA[Batch Printing : For my own i prefer making one...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1498.html#1498 Author: DELBEKE
Subject: 354
Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 10:18AM

For my own i prefer making one pdf for each document, because i am working on a filing system where each document is indexed. when a pdf contains several documents, it may be painful to extract the document to recreate a temporary pdf file containing only the document we want to show. (A given user can see only some documents in the Pdf for confidential reasons).

An other reason: if the printer crash. one document for one pdf permits to restart on the last unprinted pdf. not only the whole job.

A third one, opening (for viewing) a Pdf file greater than 500 pages may be time consuming.

On the other hand, printing a 8000 pages document in a single job is faster than printing 8000 one-page documents. Have a try for each method. that's the best advertisment i can give

 

 

]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:18:23 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1498.html#1498 <![CDATA[Batch Printing : Never thought about that. Seems...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1495.html#1495 Author: jabaltie
Subject: 354
Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 8:17AM

Never thought about that. Seems awkward.

I prefer some sort of 1 to 1 relation.

1 job = 1 pdf = 8.000 pages

or

1 job = 1 page = 1 pdf (need 8.000 printing jobs)

Am I forcing QuickPDF too much ? Isnt there someone else who uses it to print so many pages ?]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:17:06 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1495.html#1495 <![CDATA[Batch Printing : Why not generate 80 jobs with...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1494.html#1494 Author: JanN
Subject: 354
Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 8:13AM

Why not generate 80 jobs with 100 pages each? Would be a nice compromise.]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:13:16 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1494.html#1494 <![CDATA[Batch Printing : I&#039;m using PDF templates to...]]> http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1491.html#1491 Author: jabaltie
Subject: 354
Posted: 09 Mar 06 at 7:30AM

I'm using PDF templates to merge data from a database and generate documents to be printed.

So, say that I have 8.000 customers on my database and I need to print 8.000 invoices for them.

I wonder to do it like this : I design the invoice PDF template and then, read my database and for each row, I stuff data and generate the PDF invoice.

Now the question :

Is it better to generate a huge PDF with 8.000 pages and send it to print at the end or to generate 8.000 PDFs and send them to print one by one, that is, page per page ?

On the first case, of a huge PDF, I'm afraid that the print method can get too slow.

On the other hand, if I generate 8.000 separated print jobs, dont know how Windows Spooler will cope with it.

How do you PDF Professionals out there use to do it ?

What's the best approach ? Is there another one ?]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:30:26 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/batch-printing_topic354_post1491.html#1491