Qimage can print PDF's through the Photoshop plugin: open the PDF in PS and send to Qimage for printing.

Regards,
Mike

Most PDF readers have an export feature which allows you export as an image, I use Tracker Software PDF-XChange Editor. There's no colour managent involved though.
Terry

Qimage is photo printing software that allows you to arrange and print/nest many photos in a job.  PDF is a document format that has its own formatting, etc. and Qimage doesn't go into that realm (a "document" printing tool that is akin to basically a word processor).  With that said, if you use Photoshop, you can open PDF's in Photoshop and "rasterize" the documents there and then print all pages through the Qimage PS plugin.  So... PDF's can be printed via the PS plugin.

Regards,
Mike

Not much has changed here.  Qimage is for arranging and printing photos and I don't see the utility in making it a word processor.  What would be the advantage of printing documents in Qimage?  To be honest, I don't really understand.  PDF is a document so why wouldn't you use a document printing program like Acrobat or a PDF document utility for that... and print your photos in Qimage?

Regards,
Mike

I have in the past been asked to print PDFs and found it a little inconvenient that QI doesn't print them directly.

I think that PDFs can be seen in one of two ways:
1 it's a text document made into a convenient format that's easily shared.
2 it's a lossless vector* format that can't be modified making it perfect for graphic designers and illustrators to send to printshops or share with clients. (*I should say that it can be lossless and vector if saved in the right way)

Certainly, there are professional graphic designers and illustrators producing vector graphics who favour sharing images in PDF format to protect their designs/illustrations, which can also be viewed by everyone using any number of widely available PDF viewers.

For me, it's not a big issue as I'm not asked to print many and when I do I just convert it in PS (albeit one extra step in the workflow process that takes time). I can see if I was printing lots of PDFs every day it would get laborious!

Having said that, if I could print PDFs direct from QI that would be great - but for me, it's not a biggie.

My 2 cents worth. I too would welcome the ability to print PDFs directly in QI. Here is why the PDFs I sometimes get asked to print are more like photographs in that they need to be printed in a variety of sizes on art paper. Just yesterday someone I print photographs for sent me a couple of PDFs to make into 8x10 and 5x7, they were created 8.5x11. I did exactly as you suggest, I opened in photoshop and exported to Qi and printed. I could have asked the creator to go back and save in some other format but me doing it was easier and more full service. So to me, I can easily work around and am not asking for major programming. I do get why some people ask.
Jason

I've wanted to do this myself and the reason is simple. Qimage has me spoiled. I know my printer settings and color management are set up correctly. Working outside of Qimage it's always more of a guessing game- did I miss something important? That said, I don't even know if color management is maintained as a photo gets inserted into a PDF file, and resolution certainly gets trashed most of the time. The reality is that when I print a PDF nobody really notices or cares about the photo quality. So, even though it might be a handy feature, Qimage probably shouldn't try to be a document processor. I'd rather the focus remained on doing what it does best- printing photos!