PDFprint Version 2.1 5th April 1998 Programming by Fabrizio Pivari <pivari@geocities.com> Documentation by Fabrizio Pivari <pivari@geocities.com> What is PDFprint PDFprint is a very flexible tool to print PDF files from different directories and recursively from every subdirectories (in the future, form FTP and HTTP sites) to a printer or to the monitor, in PostScript format or in text format.

1. Get the latest Version of PDFprint from:
   http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3469/pdfprint.html or CPAN

2. Get and compile the xpdf, inside you can find pdftops and pdftotext tools:
   http://www.aimnet.com/~derekn/xpdf/
   Also, you can use the option -toPostScript of Acrobat Reader or, if you have just compiled Ghostscript 5.xx, you can use pdf2ps script

3. Make sure you have Perl Version 5.003 or later on your system:
   http://www.perl.com/perl/info/software.html

4. Create your personal pdfprint.cfg file.
   You can change the value of converter and print variables.
   With converter you can use pdf2ps, pdftops or acroread -toPostScript to convert PDF files to PostScript files, pdftotext to convert PDF files to texts.
   In acroread -toPostScript you can specify to convert to Level 2 PostScript (default is Level 1 PostScript) with -level2 option.
   In pdftops and pdftotext you can specify the pages to convert with the options

   • -f number the first page to convert
   • -l number the last page to convert
   In pdftops you can specify to convert to Level 1 PostScript (default is Level 2 PostScript) with -level1 option.
   In pdftotext you can specify to convert to 7-bit ASCII (default is 8-bit ISO Latin-1) with -ascii7 option.
   With printer you can use printing commands like lpr and lp or monitor commands like more and pg. Every PDF file, you have selected, is conveted with the selected converter tool, then printed with the selected printer tool.

5. Try to start PDFprint. Type ./pdfprint ./tests/pdfprint.pdf on the command line

where options include:
    -help                        print out this message
    -verbose                     verbose
    -recursive directory         scan recursively the directory
    -match     files             match different files ex. *.pdf, a?.*
    -configure file              default pdfprint.cfg

files:
    with files you can use metacharacters and relative and absolute path name
    only files with .pdf and .PDF extensions are accepted
    
example:
    pdfprint *.pdf
    pdfprint -v -c tests/test.cfg */*.pdf
    pdfprint -m a* -r pdfdocs

• Added match option (an extension of recursive option)
• Added support for acroread tool (Acrobat Reader on Unix platform)

Source

Source Code: the last release 2.1
You can also find the source code at CPAN authors/Fabrizio_Pivari/