Every day, in companies, school, offices, etc. people need to convert a lot of Word documents to PDF files and combine PDF into one. Converting Word to PDF and Combining PDF files have become an office routine for a lot of people. Some users prefer a graphic user interface. However, some prefer to process documents via command line. By saving the time of evoking the program, opening folders and files, reading menus, and clicking buttons, the command line application is always the quickest way to solve your problem. The questions are which application you should prefer and how to use command line? This article will answer your questions one by one.
Which application?
You can use the command line version of VeryPDF Document Converter (docPrint) to convert Word to PDF and combine PDF via command line. VeryPDF Document Converter has multiple versions.You can download the command line version of it by clicking trial version. This application can help you correctly and quickly convert Word to PDF and combine PDF.
How to use command line?
The whole process requires two steps. Firstly, you should open the command prompt window. If you are an advanced user, you can skip to the next step. If you are not familiar with command line, you should use different ways to open the command prompt window, according to different operating systems. For example, if you are in Windows XP, you can do as follows: click Start to open the Start menu. >Click Run , > type cmd, > click OK.
Secondly, you should type a command line and press Enter on your keyboard. The following is the basic usage of VeryPDF Document Converter: doc2pdf [options] <-i input files> [-o output file]. The option that can be employed to combine PDF files is –p 2, which can append another PDF file to the last page of a PDF file if it exists.
For example, the following command line can be used to convert all the Word documents on disk C and combine PDF files to a single one. “C:\docPrint Pro v5.0\doc2pdf.exe” –p 2 -i C:\*.doc -o D:\out.pdf
Is this method helpful? If you want to see other usage of VeryPDF Document Converter (docPrint), other than just combine PDF and convert Word to PDF, you can type the directory of the executable file in the command prompt window. If you think this application is useful, and want to buy it, please click Full Version of VeryPDF Document Converter (docPrint).