: How to store paper medium (not size) in a PDF? Our documents are intended to be printed on a pre-printed form that our printer has set up as different paper medium. Forgetting to chose that
Our documents are intended to be printed on a pre-printed form that our printer has set up as different paper medium. Forgetting to chose that is obviously rather annoying, but changing the printer's default medium would just invert the problem for the equally present non-form printouts.
In order to alleviate this, is there any way to have the PDF contain information on the required (or preferred) paper medium (in addition to the unchanged size)?
edit It seems at least in PostScript3, there exists Page Device Parameters which apparently can be used to achieve this, but as of yet I don't have a clue how to do this and whether this can be used in PDF as well. But I'm not stuck with PDF, hints on how to obtain a PS file using this via InDesign are as well welcome.
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Based on Andrew's and joojaa's comments, the current work-around (since PDF seems to be incapable of this unless maybe one starts putting some clever JavaScript in it) consists of creating the PDF, then preparing the print job but using the print to file feature in order to generate a PS file containing the correct printer settings. Now whenever the printout is needed, one simply has to send that PS directly to the printer (e.g. via Linux' lp -d printername -o raw file.ps or Windows' copy /b file.ps hostnameprintershare)
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