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Printing PDFs
"Printing" PDFs can mean different things to different people:
- sending PDFs to a printing device programmatically (to be printed on paper); or converting to PostScript; or
- "printing to PDF", or converting from a file format to PDF by 'printing' to it; or
- rasterizing inbound PDFs with precise control for driver-level interaction in prepress and or print workflow environments.
We have different toolkits to meet each of these requirements.
Printing existing PDF files on a target printing device
If you're looking to automate the printing of existing PDFs to a printing device, consider the Adobe PDF Library API. Adobe PDF Library includes printing APIs which give you controls to:
- specify PostScript level (when outputting to PostScript)
- embed or not embed fonts
- print using overprint preview or not
- process transparencies using AGM, the same engine used in the Acrobat family of products
- print optional content groups (layers) and annotations
- scale pages, including shrink-to-fit
- print via drawing directly to device context, giving you greater interactive control over the printing process
Learn more about the Adobe PDF Library SDK.
Printing to PostScript
The Adobe PDF Library SDK can be used to programmatically convert PDFs to PostScript via the PDFLPrintDoc() API.
Learn more about the Adobe PDF Library SDK.
RIPing PDFs to raster for print workflows
If you're looking for a native PDF RIP, consider Adobe's own Adobe PDF Print Engine. Adobe PDF Print Engine is the RIP used in print solutions such as Trueflow from SCREEN, NexStation VSystem from Kodak Nexpress, and :ApogeeX from Agfa, and is available to software developers exclusively through Datalogics. Features include:
- High speed, high resolution printing with support for up to 16-bit output
- Multi-threaded rendering to take full advantage of today's multicore systems
- Color management using industry standard ICC profiles including the ability to modify document profiles at the object level
- Advanced spot color controls to allow remapping, overprint emulation and device independent alternative color specification
- In-RIP trapping to work intelligently with transparency and color management
Learn more about the Adobe PDF Print Engine.
