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PDFPrint
--------

This is a command-line, and GUI application for printing PDF files,
written in Lazarus/Freepascal. It allows you to easily include PDF
printing in your Windows applications and scripts.

It is potentially cross-platform, although has only been designed
for Windows so far.

Copyright 2011 Shaun Simpson
Copyright 2011 Tristan Linnell

This project contains modified versions of the files gsimage.pas, GhostScript.pas
and gsapi.pas, which are Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Alessandro Briosi

A precompiled binary for Windows (32-bit) can be found in the Downloads section above.

Building
--------

PDFPrint will build with Lazarus 0.9.30, fpc 2.4.2 or later, and requires no
additional components or libraries, except for winspool.pp, which is included.
winspool.pp is taken from fpc 2.2.4.

Dependencies
------------

In order to use PDFPrint, you will need to obtain a copy of gsdll32.dll from the
GPL Ghostscript project and copy the file into the same directory.  If you require,
you can also add a cidfmap file to the program directory.


Usage
-----

Command-line interface:

pdfprint [options] filename

This will print a file to the default printer.

Optional command line options:

-from NN			First page to print.

-to NN				Last page to print.

-resolution NN		Set the the DPI of the output (default 300).

-printer "name"	Name of the printer to use.

-dialog				Display printer setup dialog.

-silent				Hide the GUI.

-force-ps			Force PostScript printing.

GUI Usage:

To use the GUI launch the application without any parameters. The GUI is very simplistic and
contains a single button which uses a dialog to open a file, displays the printer setup dialog
and then prints the file.