printfactory 0.1.1

Print PDF files to a local installed printer using a print tool

printfactory

printfactory is a package for printing PDF files to a physical printer using a print tool like Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader.

Example usage

import pathlib
import printfactory

printer = printfactory.Printer()
print_tool = printfactory.AdobeReader(printer)

file = pathlib.Path('my.pdf')
print_tool.print_file(file)

Table of Contents

• Why?
• Requirements
• Installing printfactory
• Known issues
• Contributing
• Changelog

Why?

The motivation for this project was to have a simple Python interface for printing PDF files to a physical printer using a local installed software ("print-tool").

Only publicly and freely available software should be used on the client or server that is using this package.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.8
• pip

Installing printfactory

To install the latest version of printfactory use pip as simple as follows.

pip install printfactory

Known issues

• The AdobeAcrobat print tool implementation is limited to only send files to the defaults system printer

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to this project Poetry is recommended.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in the CHANGELOG.md.