Does someone knows if there are *any* provisions in the PDF specification to insert printer bin selection codes or hints? Such instructions would only be significant for the exact printer it was designed for and probably ignored as invalid (silently) in most cases ?
The goal is this: find a way to design the printer output of a software such that it is 100% PDF based (always printing to PDF) even though sometimes the user prints "directly" to the printer. In such case the PDF would be produced and stored ("behind the curtain") and printed immediately. It offers a very nice and easy way to archive each and every printout done (for some days or weeks). The one thing which seems without solution is that the software need to address multiple bins : for the first copy of the multi-page invoice, send page one to this bin A, send page 2 and others to that bin B. And for all other copies of that same document, send for instance all pages to bin C.
These two requirements (wanting a PDF based solution and support for printer bins) seems contradictory and without solution. Is there some idea here?
Another idea I have would be to structure the output such that each page is generated independently of others and each i printed immediately after buying finalized, to the right printer bin. The collection of individual pages can then be automatically be appended to save a single PDF file of the document even though the individuals pages where printed to various bins and papers.
But this might pose some performance issues. Or PDF size issues. I am not sure it is worth some coding to test it. Any suggestion ?