Using PDF in template name!

All,
I have a peculiar situation. We want to use the output management part of Central Pro server, which means to say that i have already generated a PDF file by merging template and data in step 1 of a job (using PDF presentment for the template). In step 2, I call a custom agent to do certain modifications to the PDf file like adding addition pages to the PDF, etc. Now i want to send the new PDF to a printer or email or fax. Is is possible to do the same in Central Pro? If yes, how can this be accomplished?
One thing that come to my mind is to give the new PDF as the template name and have dummy dataset and use the options in the command line to redirect the output appropiately.
Thanks in anticipation!
Regards,

I have read Tammy's message, but beware on this as I have tried this with Adobe Output Manager.
When you copy a PDF to a printer, then it is the PDF code that is printed. In otherwords the output will be the PDF code and not the PDF document.
If you print a document to a printer (PCL) then it uses the PCL code or Postscript in the case of Postscript Printers.
There are a number of switches that you can use, to print a document to a printer using Adobe Acrobate Reader.
I will dig them out and post them to this site.
Regards
Andrew

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