RapidPrint

Print many PDF files at once — only your own pages. No cover sheets, no job reports, no ads, no "printed with…" pages. Drop in files or whole folders, pick a printer and press Print all.

Features

• Bulk printing of PDF files and folders (with or without subfolders), in the order you choose.
• Only your pages. Pages are drawn straight onto the printer with PDFium, the PDF engine used by Chrome. Nothing else is added.
• Printer settings: copies, two-sided (long or short edge), colour or black & white, page range (All, 1-3, 5, last), paper size, paper tray, orientation, fit to page.
• Stapling and hole punching on printers that support them (read from the printer driver through the Windows Print Ticket API).
• The printer's own options window for everything else (paper type, output tray, booklets…). Your choices are remembered per printer.
• Archive after printing: rules such as "name starts with Invoice → D:\Archive\Invoices" copy or move each printed file to the right folder. You can also pick a folder for all other files and a subfolder per month. A different file with the same name is never overwritten.
• Drag and drop, Send to › RapidPrint in Explorer, light and dark mode.
• Installs per user, without administrator rights: Start menu, desktop and Send to shortcuts, and an entry under Settings › Apps for removal.
• Small (about 6 MB plus the PDF engine), with no internet connection, no accounts and no tracking.

Download and install

1. Download RapidPrint-windows-x64.zip from the latest release.
2. Right-click the zip, choose Extract All…, and open the extracted folder.
3. Double-click RapidPrint. The first time, it offers to install itself (Start menu, desktop, Send to).

RapidPrint isn't code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may say "Windows protected your PC". Click More info › Run anyway. Some company computers block unsigned programs completely. If yours does, ask your IT department.

Requirements: Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.

Using it

To do this	Do this
Add PDFs	Drag files or folders onto the window, use Add files / Add folder, or right-click PDFs in Explorer › Send to › RapidPrint
Change the order	Select rows (Ctrl/Shift for several), then ▲ / ▼
Print	Choose the printer and settings on the right, then Print all
Sort printed files	Switch on Sort printed files into folders, then Add rule

Rules are checked from top to bottom, and the first one that matches decides the folder. Matching ignores upper/lower case and treats spaces, _ and - alike. Files are only copied or moved after they have printed successfully.

Settings are saved in %APPDATA%\RapidPrint\settings.json.

To uninstall, go to Settings › Apps › Installed apps › RapidPrint › Uninstall.

Building from source

1. Install Rust (stable).

2. Download pdfium-win-x64.tgz from pdfium-binaries and put bin\pdfium.dll in the vendor folder (see vendor/README.md).

3. Build and run:

   cargo build --release
   target\release\RapidPrint.exe
   

cargo test runs the unit tests. cargo test -- --ignored --nocapture also lists your printers and prints two sample PDFs to Microsoft Print to PDF.

Every push is built and tested by GitHub Actions. Pushing a tag such as v2.0.1 builds the release zip and attaches it to a GitHub release automatically.

Command line

RapidPrint.exe [files or folders...]      open with these PDFs in the list
RapidPrint.exe --install | --uninstall
RapidPrint.exe --screenshot out.png       draw the window, save a picture, exit

How it works

• src/printing.rs lists printers, reads what they can do, builds the printer settings (DEVMODE plus a Print Ticket for stapling and punching) and sends each PDF as one print job.
• src/pdfium.rs loads pdfium.dll and draws the pages onto the printer.
• src/app.rs contains the window (built with egui).
• src/common.rs holds the archive rules, file finding and settings.
• src/installer.rs handles the per-user install, shortcuts and uninstall.
• src/brand.rs and src/brand_public.rs set the name, colours, icon and default rules.

License

MIT. RapidPrint uses open-source components. See THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.