Printing PDFs from Windows Command Line

问题:

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

回答1:

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"

回答2:

I had two problems with using Acrobat Reader for this task.

1. The command line API is not officially supported, so it could change or be removed without warning.
2. 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???

回答3:

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 & 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/)

回答4:

Looks like you are missing the printer name, driver, and port - in that order. Your final command should resemble:

AcroRd32.exe /t <file.pdf> <printer_name> <printer_driver> <printer_port>

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.

回答5:

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/

回答6:

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

回答7:

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

回答8:

@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..

回答9:

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.