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Printing PDF files - defining printer bins?

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 LastBoyScout 26 Nov 2015
Hi,

Yes, I've googled it, and working through the results, but hoping I might get a quicker answer this way.

I am doing some work on the printing functionality in our software, which works briefly as follows:
- users define print templates as RTF files
- users select data and template for printing
- RTF file is generated, output to the printer and printed using MS Word.

As part of this, some RTF templates can define different printer bins for different pages - typically, the first page would go to a bin with headed paper and everything else would go to a bin with plain A4.

So far, so good.

The software has an option to output the document as a PDF file, in which case the process is the same as before and the generated RTF file is converted to a PDF file before being printed.

The problem is that the PDF files seem incapable of handing page-specific bins and everything gets sent to the same bin.

Has anyone come across a way of defining different bins for different pages in PDF files?

Any help gratefully received
In reply to LastBoyScout:

PostScript has printer control commands, so I'd expect PDF to support them too.

So it may be down to your PDF creation; how are you doing that?

How does your RTF-Word-printer route control the selection of paper bins? PCL?

Then there's the issue of printer drivers...
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