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Programmatically print PDF documents

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Hi
I'm working on a project in which I have to print PDF reports to specific printers.

I've tried a few approaches (including MigraDoc and others) but the only simple solution I could find so far, was opening a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader with the correct parameters, causing it to print.

This solution has 2 problems:
1. It needs a dedicated server since Adobe pops-up every time a report is printed, even though the parameters specify that it should remain minimized. (This is a common problem)
2. More-or-less-randomly one in every 10 documents print without passing the correct document name to the printer, resulting in a document name of "Local Downlevel Document" and since I closely watch the spool in order to give feedback to the user regarding the printing of the report, I cannot identify the document in the spool or match it to the correct report.

Anyone here with experience in printing PDF's? Are there better solutions?
Tags: C# (C# 3.0), PDF, Printing

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