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Command prompt print window6/19/2023 ![]() %PDF-1.7įor most POS printers a PDF either needs to be processed in middleware or usually top end firmware such as onboard Direct PDF My dirt cheap HP accepts files that can be viewed as PDF that start textually like this i.e. It is possible if the PDF is the correct type prepared for the printer (even a simple thermal or inkjet) then an old school copy /b file.pdf "printer" may work but dont send a big file to test, just a tiny Hello World!, or your carbon neutrality is instantly wiped out by reams of paper with one or two letters each. However printing PDF from the command line is where the real fun begins. If you wish to print xml or html graphically in windows 10 you can ask Edge -headless to print those for you to PDF, either as screen shot or rendered text, silently without enforced html confirmation ! And again you can print html automatically by using sendkeys to replace the user. If your preference is FireFox rendering, from the command line you needed to install an extension, however with tightened security in windows 10, I dont know if that's still possible. ![]() Traditionally you would simply use rundll32.exe mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "C:\printme.txt"īut security exploits have made that simplicity more of a challenge thusĬd /D C:\Windows\System32
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