Patrick,

Ah ha! So Distiller is capable of concatenating into a single file then? That's great news..

Thanks!


>>Hi All,
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>>Does anyone know of an easy way to print multiple reports, all with different layouts, information, etc to files then easily concatenate them together for one monster print job? We have an almost infinite number of combinations of data and reports. For convenience sake we naturally have broken these into their component parts, printing each as needed. This suits all needs except the printing speed issue. (I want my cake and to eat it too.. <g>)
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>>We are dealing with a speed issue that results from multiple color print outs, each being a separate print job. We have been informaed that if we could concatenate all these teports into one file that this would markedly speed up the printing time.
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>>I know how to do the COPY /B + stuff but was wondering if anyone has ever tackled this beast and had a better method developed? I'm kind of wondering if there is a WSH approach I don't know of or some other low-level solution.
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>>The printer is one of the Xerox DocuColor 12's.
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>>Any suggestions gratefully appreciated...
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>>Thanks!!
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>my approach to that exact situation was to set the output destination
>of the various reports to Acrobat Distiller. for the filename, i
>gave it a UDF which create a sequence of filenames in a temp directory.
>then invoke Acrobat Distiller to concatenate all those PS files into
>a single PDF file.
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>that also allowed me to e-mail (if i wanted) a single file instead of
>a bunch of separate files.
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>Acrobat 5 also has several nice printer options built it.