Printing MANY PDFs, how to manage?

[Forrest...@adobeforums.com]

Where I work, we have teachers that receive homework via PDF. Often times, this results in *many* files being accepted.

Our secretary is trying to find a way to facilitate the printing of many PDFs so that it doesn't trash Windows resources, in a sane manner so not to flood the printer and which doesn't require manually printing each document.

I've hooked her up with Thunderbird and a plugin that wild detach the PDFs and place them into a folder, that was the easy part.

I'm thinking I may have to toss this to a UNIX system and script it; however, I wonder if anyone here may have some clever ideas on how to manage this scenario.

Thank you.

[try67]

Why not combine all PDF's into a single file, and then print that?
This can be automated in several ways, but the easiest is to simply drag the files into the Thumbnails (or Pages) tab.

[Forrie]

On Jan 5, 3:22 pm, try67 <try6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not combine all PDF's into a single file, and then print that?
> This can be automated in several ways, but the easiest is to simply drag the files into the Thumbnails (or Pages) tab.

Can you elaborate on the latter part? Drag files into Thumbnails?
Are you talking within Acrobat or something.

[Forrie]

Some of the approaches I've seen have a couple of problems. One, we
use options to the printer driver to staple each PDF document
*separately*. Second, when you spool up a ton of print jobs, Windows
crawls and most of the time the jobs fail - there is also a queue
mechanism on the destination printer (in our case, an Oce cm4010).

I found this reference on the Internet:

# Windows Explorer, choose View, Folder Options, choose File Types tab
and highlight the item associated with PDF files
# Click Edit
# Click New
# In the Action box type: Adobe Batch Print or whatever you'd like to
call it
# In the Application used to perform action box, type this,
substituting the full path to Reader/Acrobat/Exchange as needed
# /s "%1" If the path includes spaces, it may be necessary to enclose
it in quotes as well. Put a checkmark next to Use DDE
# In the DDE Message box, type this:
# [FilePrintSilent("%1")] In Application, type:
# acroview In Topic, type:
# control Click OK as needed to close this and the other windows
you've opened.
# Highlight a group of files, right click, choose Adobe Batch Print.
The files print to the default Windows printer.

Dunno if that would really work right for this situation.

Most of the printing is being done from a Windows environment, but if
I could find a script that facilitates it, I could probably set up a
Linux or Mac job to do so.

Thanks.