Using command line is always the quickest way to convert documents in batch such as from XLS to WMF. If you have a lot of documents to convert every day, and all the documents are in various types, you’d better install an all-to-all document converter on the computer. With the help of such a converter, you can save a lot of time.
The command line version of VeryPDF Document Converter (docPrint Pro) is such an all-to-all document converter which is worth a try. Though VeryPDF Document Converter also provides a GUI version, in the rest part of the article, when eryPDF Document Converter appears, it refers to the command line version. You can download it by clicking VeryPDF Document Converter. After it is installed on your computer, it can be used free for 50 times. The following will show you how to use it.
First, before you use the command line application, you need to run the Windows Command Prompt. If you are in Windows XP, please do as follows: click Start to open the Start menu, and then click Command Prompt on the Start menu. Or if you are in Windows 7 or Vista, you can Click Start, type cmd in the Search box on the Start menu and then press Enter. When the command prompt window appears, you can proceed to the second step.
Second, type a command line according to the usage of the executable file. The command line application of VeryPDF Document Converter is the executable file named doc2pdf.exe located in the installation directory. You can view the usage and the options after you type the path of the executable file in the command prompt window and press Enter. The usage is repeated as follows:
- doc2pdf [options] <-i Document Files> [-o Output]
The following are two examples. The first example can convert a XLS file to a WMF, and the second example can convert XLS to WMF in batch. Please pay attention: quotation marks must be used to enclose a path name, if words in it are separated by spaces. Don’t forget to press Enter after you type a command line.
- "C:\docPrint Pro v5.0\doc2pdf.exe" -i C:\in.xls -o D:\out.wmf
- "C:\docPrint Pro v5.0\doc2pdf.exe" -i C:\*.xls -o D:\*.wmf
This is how you can use VeryPDF Document Converter to convert XLS to WMF via command line. With the help of VeryPDF Document Converter, you can also convert other types of document as you like. Thanks for reading!