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Old 05-12-2011
how to print a PDF file in UNIX
on a PROGRESS environment, i create an invoice which at printing it must generate both the .dat for the invoice that was sent to the printer and the .dat for the PDF version. we have never printed PDF files in our lp printer until recently. i've done a bit of googling and it comes down to that i must have a PDF converter (pref Post script) then just send the converted pdf to the printer. i checked our printer setting and they read as lp -sc -d <printer name>. our unix* is on SOLARIS.

please help... Smilie
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Old 05-12-2011
Do you have a acrobat reader on your box?
in which case you could :
Code:
# acroread -toPostScript | lp -c -oduplex -dlp0 <filename>

But its some time ago since last time I used this... and so may not be anymore the case...
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Old 05-13-2011
tks vbe, it almost worked(the command is spot on), it just couldn't recognize the PDF directory (which is the global c: directory). i even copied the pdf file to one of the directories in UNIX and print it from there but it came back with an Error msg...
"Failed to contact service for _default: not-found", which i'm not sure what _default is it refering to...
 
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