How to print PDF to printer on Windows 8.1 ?
Windows 8.1 comes with a Windows Reader application as the default PDF reader program. However, by default Windows 8.1 does not have the ability to print PDF from the Windows Reader.
You can take advantage of PDF2Printer for Windows 8.1 to print PDF file to any Windows printer in Windows Explorer or in any application where you can right-click on your PDF document. The right-click operation brings about the following quick menu, and you should choose Print,
After you confirm your Print command, you will get the following dialog to choose the target printer,
Click the above Print button to confirm the printing, and go to your printer for the output. You can choose Microsoft XPS Document Writer printer as your target printer, and you will get the XPS file as the output. In this simple way you convert PDF to XPS without any difficulty.
A Batch PDF Printing Tool is included in the setup package,
Options available:
Print to a specified printer
You can print to a specific printer, system default printer, or choose to select
a printer in the print dialog at runtime.
Smart Rotation
Automatic rotation of PDF pages is featured. You can disable the rotation at any time you want.
Smart Scaling
Shrink large pages and expand small pages to fit on medium.
Flexible Configuration
Configure the available settings with the PDF2Printer Configuration Manager.
Provided as freeware.
Batch PDF Printing
Print PDF to your printer in batch with the PDF2Printer Batch Print tool. It's
free.
Command-line Operability
Control the print process with command line switches. (Request by email)
64-bit optimization
On Windows 8.1 64-bit operating system, PDF2Printer delivers PDF to printer as twice as much faster than on 32-bit.
All products support Microsoft Windows 8.1 x64 (64-bit)
and x86 (32-bit), and are compatible with Microsoft Windows 8, Windows
7, Windows Server 2008, and
Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019.