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I have a bunch of pdf files (around 10K files) stored in a folder, all these pdf files are generated by a reporting tool and ready to be printed. Depending on the file name, I need to print each of these pdf files using a .Net program. I want to print pdf files as silently as possible, I don't want to read or modify pdf files.

Based on the research I have found following methods to achieve my requirement.

  1. Use RawPrinterHelper to send each files to printer

  2. Invoke an instance of Adobe reader and print pdf files.

  3. Use a Third party pdf library to load document and print it.

For the past few days I have been googling to find out the best method to perform silent batch printing of pdf files, I could not come to a conclusion.

Are you aware of any opensource pdf library to print pdf files?

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  • It looks like PDFClown has a printing sample : https://github.com/n9/pdfclown/blob/master/dotNET/pdfclown.samples.cli/src/org/pdfclown/samples/cli/PrintingSample.cs Is there any reason it needs to be an open source library? There are a number of companies that offer paid for tools (like Datalogics, yes I work there) that allow you to build this functionality into your own applications. – Brandon Haugen Feb 04 '16 at 15:08
  • Thanks for your response, I'll look at pdfClown. We have a printing application which uses pdfp.exe to bridge an old version of adobe acrobat reader to print pdf files. I'm rewriting this software now and I would like to avoid the dependency on Adobe reader. The reason to go with an opensource is to cut the cost. – Shibu Thannikkunnath Feb 04 '16 at 19:03
  • Did you ever find a solution? – milez Jun 06 '16 at 13:31
  • @milez, the project which I was working got delayed and I'm no longer working there. Tho I did not implement the solution, I remember we were agreed to implement it using RawPrinterHelper because our printer supports it and we only need printing pdf files functionality. – Shibu Thannikkunnath Jun 06 '16 at 17:01
  • using RawPrint; Printer.PrintFile("Printer Name", @"C:\Path\To\Print\File.prn"); – Nour Lababidi Jun 16 '16 at 00:26

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