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Programmatically Print a PDF File - Specifying Printer

I have a requirement to print an existing PDF file from a Python script.

I need to be able to specify the printer in the script. It's running on Windows XP.

Any ideas what I could do?

This method looks like it would work except that I cannot specify the printer:

win32api.ShellExecute (
0,
"print",
filename,
None,
".",
0
)


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Looks like bluish left a comment about this but did not leave an answer.

Install Ghostprint http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/gsprint.htm

Then use the command in the question

Print PDF document with python's win32print module?

please refer this link for further details

import tempfile
import win32api
import win32print

filename = tempfile.mktemp (".txt")
open (filename, "w").write ("This is a test")
win32api.ShellExecute (
0,
"print",
filename,
#
# If this is None, the default printer will
# be used anyway.
#
'/d:"%s"' % win32print.GetDefaultPrinter (),
".",
0
)


This shall work please refer the link provided for further details.

There's an underdocumented printto verb which takes the printer name as a parameter (enclosed in quotes if it contains spaces).

printto

import tempfile
import win32api
import win32print

filename = tempfile.mktemp (".txt")
open (filename, "w").write ("This is a test")
win32api.ShellExecute (
0,
"printto",
filename,
'"%s"' % win32print.GetDefaultPrinter (),
".",
0
)


snippet from Ja8zyjits's link

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