Batch printing from WIndows Explorer...

[Guest Brad Pears]

Not sure where to look for a resolution to this one...

 

Our designers use the Windows Explorer ability of selecting multiple .pdf

files they have created then right-click and select the 'Print' option -

which then is supposed to print each of the documents that was highlited.

This saves a toin of time over opening each .pdf file individually and

printing it.

 

It had been working fine but recently one of the designers came to me and

mentioned that sometimes this works and sometimes it does not. When it does

not, he means that it will print maybe one or two of the drawings but not

the rest. I am not even sure where to begin looking for a solution to this

problem. Has anyone else ever run into this issue?

 

Maybe there is a piece of software out there that someone has used that

allows you to do this - that works?

 

Help!

 

Thanks, Brad

[Guest Paul Mckenna]

Re: Batch printing from WIndows Explorer...

 

Just a quick search on google for "print multiple pdf files"

brings up this software http://www.print-conductor.com/

maybe worth a try?

 

Regards

Paul

 

"Brad Pears" <bradp@truenorthloghomes.com> wrote in message

news:%23DCzfxLeIHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Not sure where to look for a resolution to this one...

>

> Our designers use the Windows Explorer ability of selecting multiple .pdf

> files they have created then right-click and select the 'Print' option -

> which then is supposed to print each of the documents that was highlited.

> This saves a toin of time over opening each .pdf file individually and

> printing it.

>

> It had been working fine but recently one of the designers came to me and

> mentioned that sometimes this works and sometimes it does not. When it

> does not, he means that it will print maybe one or two of the drawings but

> not the rest. I am not even sure where to begin looking for a solution to

> this problem. Has anyone else ever run into this issue?

>

> Maybe there is a piece of software out there that someone has used that

> allows you to do this - that works?

>

> Help!

>

> Thanks, Brad

>

[Guest Brad Pears]

Re: Batch printing from WIndows Explorer...

 

I also did some more research and discovered the following.

 

When selecting these multiple pdf's and then right-clicking to select

"print", what happens is that it launches the version of Adobe that is

installed on their computers first - obviously requiring this to perform the

printing task at hand. Well just recently, this particular user installed

Adobe Pro version 6 on his PC. Before that he had Adobe Reader only -- ver 7

or 8 - and it worked fine. The are now using Adobe ver 6 Pro because they

need the ability to modify PDF drawings and that is the only version we have

of ADobe that allows that. I suspect that it must obviously be related to

that version of Adobe that is causing the screw up perhaps.

 

I think what I may do is to look for an alternative to Adobe 6 Pro for

modifying .pdf documents...

 

Any other ideas?

 

Brad

 

"Paul Mckenna" <JazzyJ187@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message

news:6A6524C2-B9B6-4625-8C3F-FC74264C22E3@microsoft.com...

> Just a quick search on google for "print multiple pdf files"

> brings up this software http://www.print-conductor.com/

> maybe worth a try?

>

> Regards

> Paul

>

> "Brad Pears" <bradp@truenorthloghomes.com> wrote in message

> news:%23DCzfxLeIHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Not sure where to look for a resolution to this one...

>>

>> Our designers use the Windows Explorer ability of selecting multiple .pdf

>> files they have created then right-click and select the 'Print' option -

>> which then is supposed to print each of the documents that was highlited.

>> This saves a toin of time over opening each .pdf file individually and

>> printing it.

>>

>> It had been working fine but recently one of the designers came to me and

>> mentioned that sometimes this works and sometimes it does not. When it

>> does not, he means that it will print maybe one or two of the drawings

>> but not the rest. I am not even sure where to begin looking for a

>> solution to this problem. Has anyone else ever run into this issue?

>>

>> Maybe there is a piece of software out there that someone has used that

>> allows you to do this - that works?

>>

>> Help!

>>

>> Thanks, Brad

>>

>