Printing PDFs from Windows Command Line

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I m trying to print all pdfs in current dir   When I call this bash script in cmd  singlepdf sh     C  Program Files  x86  Adobe Reader 10 0 Reader AcroRd32 exe    t Gemeinde 348 BioID 842 alt pdf everything s working fine   When calling multiplepdfs sh with this content   declare -a pdfs    pdf   for pdf in   pdfs      do   echo -e   nprinting    pdf   with AcroRd32 exe    n      C  Program Files  x86  Adobe Reader 10 0 Reader AcroRd32 exe    t  pdf   sleep 3 done   The echo shows that files are addressed correctly in the loop - but then I get the error  C  Program Files  x86  Adobe Reader 10 0 Reader AcroRd32 exe   No such file or directory      Can someone help out with this issue   Edit  BTW  I have msys mingw installed

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Today I was looking for this very solution and I tried PDFtoPrinter which I had an issue with  the PDFs I tried printing suggested they used incorrect paper size which hung the print job and nothing else printed until resolved    In my effort to find an alternative  I remembered GhostScript and utilities associated with it   I found GSView and it s associated program GSPrint  reference https   www ghostscript com     Both these require GhostScript  https   www ghostscript com   but when all the components are installed  GSPrint worked flawlessly and I was able to create a scheduled task that printed PDFs automatically overnight

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I had two problems with using Acrobat Reader for this task    The command line API is not officially supported  so it could change or be removed without warning  Send a print command to Reader loads up the GUI  with seemingly no way to prevent it  I needed the process to be transparent to the user    I stumbled across this blog  that suggests using Foxit Reader  Foxit Reader is free  the API is almost identical to Acrobat Reader  but crucially is documented and does not load the GUI for print jobs   A word of warning  don t just click through the install process without paying attention  it tries to install unrelated software as well  Why are software vendors still doing this

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First response - wanted to finally give back to a helpful community     Wanted to add this to the responses for people still looking for simple a solution  I m using a free product by Foxit Software - FoxItReader  Here is the link to the version that works with the silent print - newer versions the silent print feature is still not working  FoxitReader623 815 Setup  FOR   f IN    pdf  DO   C  Program Files  x86  Foxit Software Foxit Reader FoxitReader exe   t   f  SPST-SMPICK    f  amp  del   f     I simply created a command to loop through the directory and for each pdf file  FOR   f IN   pdf  open the reader silently   t  get the next PDF    f  and send it to the print queue  SPST-SMPICK   then delete each PDF after I send it to the print queue  del  f    Shashank showed an example of moving the files to another directory if that what you need to do  FOR   X in    dir1   pdf   DO  move     dpnX pdf  p

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Using Acrobat reader is not a good solution  especially command line attributes are not documented  Additionally Acrobat reader s window stays open after printing process  PDF files are well known by printer drivers  so you may find better tools  like 2Printer exe or RawFilePrinter exe  In my opinion RawFilePrinter has better support and clear licencing process  you pay donation once and you can redistribute RawFilePrinter in many project you like - even new versions work with previously purchased license   RawFilePrinter exe -p  c  Users Me Desktop mypdffile pdf   Canon Printer   IF  ERRORLEVEL  1      echo  Error       Latest version to download  http   bigdotsoftware pl index php rawfileprinter

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ECHO off set  dir1 C  TicketDownload   FOR   X in    dir1   pdf   DO    C  Program Files  x86  Adobe Reader 9 0 Reader AcroRd32 exe   t     dpnX pdf   Microsoft XPS Document Writer     FOR   X in    dir1   pdf   DO  move     dpnX pdf  p     Try this  May be u have some other version of Reader so that is the problem

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The error message is telling you   Try just    C  Program Files  x86  Adobe Reader 10 0 Reader AcroRd32 exe   t   pdf    When you enclose the string in single-quotes  this makes everything inside a valid string  including the   chars  By removing the single-quotes  the shell will process the dbl-quotes as string  wrappers     I would also wrap the filename variable in dbl-quotes so you can easily process files with spaces in their names  i e    C  Program Files  x86  Adobe Reader 10 0 Reader AcroRd32 exe   t   pdf    IHTH

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Another solution  out of the box   FOR  X in     pdf   DO  C  Windows System32 print exe  d    printername    X pdf      Edit   As mentionned by  huysentruitw   this only works for txt files   Sorry    When I double checked i realized I m using GhostScript  as  Multiverse IT  proposed  It looks like so     C  Program Files  x86  gs gs bin gswin32c exe  -dPrinted -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOSAFER -q -dNumCopies 1 -sDEVICE mswinpr2 -sOutputFile   printer My-Printer-Name   c  My-Pdf-File pdf

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Looks like you are missing the printer name  driver  and port - in that order  Your final command should resemble   AcroRd32 exe  t  lt file pdf gt   lt printer name gt   lt printer driver gt   lt printer port gt    For example    C  Program Files  x86  Adobe Reader 11 0 Reader AcroRd32 exe   t  C  Folder File pdf   Brother MFC-7820N USB Printer   Brother MFC-7820N USB Printer   IP 192 168 10 110    Note  To find the printer information  right click your printer and choose properties  In my case shown above  the printer name and driver name matched - but your information may differ

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I know this is and old question  but i was faced with the same problem recently and none of the answers worked for me    Couldn t find an old Foxit Reader version As  pilkch said 2Printer adds a report page Adobe Reader opens a gui    After searching a little more i found this  http   www columbia edu  em36 pdftoprinter html   It s a simple exe that you call with the filename and it prints to the default printer  or one that you specify   From the site      PDFtoPrinter is a program for printing PDF files from the Windows command line  The program is designed generally for the Windows command line and also for use with the vDos DOS emulator    To print a PDF file to the default Windows printer  use this command   PDFtoPrinter exe filename pdf   To print to a specific printer  add the name of the printer in quotation marks   PDFtoPrinter exe filename pdf  Name of Printer    If you want to print to a network printer  use the name that appears in Windows print dialogs  like this  and be careful to note the two backslashes at the start of the name and the single backslash after the servername    PDFtoPrinter exe filename pdf    SERVER PrinterName

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I had the similar problem with printing multiple PDF files in a row and found only workaround by using 2Printer software   Command line example to print PDF files   2Printer exe -s  C  In   PDF  -prn  HP LasetJet 1100    It is free for non-commercial use at http   doc2prn com

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Here is another solution   1  Download SumatraPDF  portable version  - https   www sumatrapdfreader org download-free-pdf-viewer html  2  Create a class library project and unzip the SumatraPDF exe to the project directory root and unblock it    3  Inside the project Properties  go to the Resoruces tab and add the exe as a file    4  Add the following class to your library   public class SumatraWrapper   IDisposable       private readonly FileInfo  tempFileForExe   null      private readonly FileInfo  exe   null       public SumatraWrapper                  exe   ExtractExe               public SumatraWrapper FileInfo tempFileForExe            this                  tempFileForExe   tempFileForExe    throw new ArgumentNullException nameof tempFileForExe               private FileInfo ExtractExe                 string tempfile                 tempFileForExe    null                 tempFileForExe FullName                Path GetTempFileName       exe            FileInfo exe   new FileInfo tempfile           byte   bytes   Properties Resources SumatraPDF           using  FileStream fs   exe OpenWrite                          fs Write bytes  0  bytes Length                      return exe             public bool Print FileInfo file  string printerName                string arguments     -print-to    printerName       file FullName              ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo   new ProcessStartInfo  exe FullName  arguments                        CreateNoWindow   true                    using  Process process   Process Start processStartInfo                         process WaitForExit                return process ExitCode    0                        region IDisposable Support     private bool disposedValue   false     To detect redundant calls      protected virtual void Dispose bool disposing                if   disposedValue                        if  disposing                                   TODO  dispose managed state  managed objects                                 TODO  free unmanaged resources  unmanaged objects  and override a finalizer below                 TODO  set large fields to null              try                               File Delete  exe FullName                             catch                                           disposedValue   true                          TODO  override a finalizer only if Dispose bool disposing  above has code to free unmanaged resources          PdfToPrinterWrapper                 Do not change this code  Put cleanup code in Dispose bool disposing  above           Dispose false                    This code added to correctly implement the disposable pattern      public void Dispose                    Do not change this code  Put cleanup code in Dispose bool disposing  above          Dispose true              TODO  uncomment the following line if the finalizer is overridden above             GC SuppressFinalize this              endregion     5  Enjoy printing pdf files from your code   Use like this   FileInfo file   new FileInfo   c  Sandbox dummy file pdf    SumatraWrapper pdfToPrinter       new SumatraWrapper    pdfToPrinter Print file   My Printer

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