And how do you propose to do that? You'll still need something that knows how to print and/or convert PDF files. If your printer supports PostScript, you can print to a file but you'll still need a program to read and print the PDF. That's even if your printer supports PostScript (most HP's do, but they prefer PCL for some stupid reason). And to my knowledge, the printing subsystem that .NET encapsulates (at least in the base class libraries) doesn't support spooling RAW documents (since you'd be sending the PostScript, you don't want the driver to convert it to PostScript). You'd need to find a completely different printing library that can spool RAW (and since most printing libraries are to help you accomplish printing graphics and text, I doubt you're going to find one). You'll be forced to P/Invoke calls on the print server. But that still doesn't solve your problem since you still need something that can read and print PDF files. If this isn't an automated program, just use printWithDialog on the Acrobat OCX. If this is an automated program, take a look at the Acrobat solutions on Adobe[^]'s web site. They do have a product that can monitor directories and convert to PDF (Distiller, part of the Acrobat application). IIRC, there's also one that can monitor a directory and print the files using options you specify. If the Acrobat OCX doesn't work for you, there are others, some even written in managed code, such as TallPDF (or something like that - they advertise on CodeProject and supposedly are pretty good).
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