Hi, we print our documents with command like this
sumatrapdf -exit-on-print -print-to “my-printer” my-document.pdf
and it works most of the time.
But suddenly sumatra displays “Cannot print file”.
Trying the very same command again works perfectly.
Is there a logfile where we can find the reason why the document was not printed ?
Or does sumatrapdf give a “returncode” that there was a problem with printing ?
Looking at the code (https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/blob/1f754eec0687e58c33400925d665240c3c6df3aa/src/Print.cpp#L798) “Cannot print this file” happens when we can’t open / process file.
If it’s intermittent I would blame anti-virus software for messing with file access.
Hi,
thanks for your answer.
But is there a way that I can react to this problem ?
If my batchfile would know there was a problem it could wait a second and try to print the file again.
When printing fails, the return code is 1. If it doesn’t, it’s 0.
Hi,
perfect, works like a charm !
Here is the solution I came up with (suggestions for improvement are welcome):
@echo off
set count=1
set silent01=1
:start
if %silent01% == 1 goto silent
SumatraPDF.exe -exit-on-print -print-to %1 %2
goto finish
:silent
SumatraPDF.exe -silent -exit-on-print -print-to %1 %2
if errorlevel 1 goto error
goto finish
:error
timeout /t 3
set /a count=%count%+1
if %count% geq 5 set silent01=0
goto start
:finish