Drag and drop print jobs to the PrintCenter icon

Dec 30, '02 08:10:56AM

Contributed by: lolopb

I was printing many PDFs this morning when I made a mistake by dragging a document onto the Print Center icon in my Dock instead of the Acrobat icon. Then I realized that the printer printed this document.

It seems you can do it for any document (well I didn't try for Classic docs, I don't have Classic anymore). The only thing is that you can't choose the printer nor the parameters; it uses the default printer with the standard parameters. May be this function will have more features in the future :)

[Editor's note: In testing this on my machine (10.2.3), the print setup dialog box sometimes appears when I drop the document to be printed. It seems to depend on what you print. My Word and Excel documents brought up the print dialog, but text files and PDFs did not. You can also drop a document onto any printer in the open Print Center window, but it will ignore your drop location and just use the default printer as the printer to be used (and it seems to change my default printer to the one I dropped the object onto). Finally, this didn't work for every file type I tested (a JPEG set to open in Preview didn't even get added to the queue.]

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