Printing PDFs from Windows Command Line

Question

I\'m trying to print all pdfs in current dir. When I call this bash script in cmd (singlepdf.sh): \'\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Reader 10.0\\Reader

Answer 1

I had two problems with using Acrobat Reader for this task.

1. The command line API is not officially supported, so it could change or be removed without warning.
2. Send a print command to Reader loads up the GUI, with seemingly no way to prevent it. I needed the process to be transparent to the user.

I stumbled across this blog, that suggests using Foxit Reader. Foxit Reader is free, the API is almost identical to Acrobat Reader, but crucially is documented and does not load the GUI for print jobs.

A word of warning, don't just click through the install process without paying attention, it tries to install unrelated software as well. Why are software vendors still doing this???