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  VeryPDF PDFPrint Command Line allows you to print PDF and add watermark. Meanwhile, by this software you can add many watermark in one command line as this software allows you to design watermark in .ini file. The INI file format is an informal standard for configuration files for some platforms or software. INI files are simple text files with a basic structure composed of “sections” and “properties”.

Step 1. Download PDFPrint Command Line

• For now there is only server version of this software available on our website, but you can also use it on single computer. However, by the sever version, you can use the corresponding SOFTWARE on exactly one server computer that offers service to clients. If the SOFTWARE contains source codes, you have the right to modify and reuse the codes under the Server License.
• When downloading finishes, there will be an zip file. Please extract it to some folder then check the elements in it.

Step 2. Print multiple watermarks on PDF

• When you run the conversion, please refer to the usage and example.
  Usage: pdfprint.exe [options] [Options] <PDF Files>
• There is an .ini file in the extracted folder. Please check settings here. The following snapshot is from part of the .ini file.  Here you can specify watermarks as many as you need. Here you can specify the type, position, width & height, opacity, rotating angle of the watermark. Meanwhile here you can specify the applying page range.
   
• Now let us check how to apply watermark to the printing job by PDF print command line.

pdfprint.exe -winfont -winfont2 -scalex -1 -scaley -1 -pdforient 4 -printermargins -watermarkfile “%CD%\watermark.ini” “%CD%\example.pdf”
pdfprint.exe -scalex -1 -scaley -1 -pdforient 4 -printermargins -watermarkfile “%CD%\watermark.ini” “%CD%\example.pdf”
In the example, the parameter -watermarkfile “%CD%\watermark.ini” is used to call .ini file to add watermark when printing PDF to PDF printer.
Now let us check related parameters in the above command line.
-scalex <int> : X axis scale factors, default is 100
    100 : do not scale PDF page
      0 : scale the width of PDF page to fit the printer’s paper size
     -1 : keep the minimum constant scaling in both paper width and height
  -scaley <int> : Y axis scale factors, default is 100
    100 : do not scale PDF page
      0 : scale the height of PDF page to fit the printer’s paper size
     -1 : keep the minimum constant scaling in both paper width and height
  -pdforient <int> : select the orientation of the show PDF page,
    0 : upright, default
    1 : upside down
    2 : left side down
    3 : right side down
    4 : auto detect orientation for PDF pages
  -orient <int> : select the orientation of the printer paper,
    1 is portrait (default) and 2 is landscape

By this way, you can stamp many watermarks in one command line during the printing job. During the printing, if you have any question, please contact us as soon as possible.

When printing PDF file, maybe you are not satisfied with fonts. However, if you use real printer, it will be a little complicated to control the printing fonts. Based on this need, VeryPDF PDFPrint Command Line specially designed some functions which allows you to choose printing fonts among system fonts, PDF embedded fonts, Unicode and others. In the following part,  I will show you how to use this function.

Step 1. Get One Copy of PDFPrint Command Line

• This is Window application, and now it can not work under Mac and Linux system. But it supports all the Window system like Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 of both 32 and 64-bit.
• Once downloading finishes, you will find a zip file. Please extract it to some folder then call pdfprint.exe from MS Dos Windows.

Step 2. Print PDF and Control Printing Fonts

Usage:pdfprint.exe [options] [Options] <PDF Files>

• When you need to print PDF and control printing fonts, please refer to the following command line template.
  pdfprint.exe -winfont -winfont2 C:\input.pdf
  By this command line, you can face printer to print PDF by system fonts. And when you need to use parameter –winfont2, please use parameter -winfont together or else the printing job may fail.
  -winfont    : use Windows fonts to instead of embedded fonts
  -winfont2 : force to use Windows fonts to instead of all embedded fonts
• When you need to print PDF using the embedded fonts in PDF file, please refer to the following command line template.
  pdfprint.exe –useembedfont C:\input.pdf
  -useembedfont : this parameter can help you use embedded fonts from PDF file to the printed paper documents.
• When you need to print PDF file by Unicode, please refer to the following command line template .

pdfprint.exe –useunicode C:\input.pdf
-useunicode <int> : this parameter enables or disables Unicode conversion for PDF printing. When there are some special characters in the PDF, this parameter can be added to have a try.

There is another function you may need, which enables anti-aliased font bitmaps for emulated fonts. When you use this function, please add parameter –antifonts.
-antifonts: enable anti-aliased font bitmaps for emulated fonts

By those parameters, you can print PDF by the fonts you would like to.  Even if there are some kinds of fonts are extremely hard to print correctly, you can convert them to image and then print them. By this method, there should not have problems. Please check some examples here.
pdfprint.exe -raster2 -rasterbitcount 1 C:\input.pdf
pdfprint.exe -raster2 -rasterbwtext -rasterbitcount 1 -xres 600 -yres 600 C:\input.pdf
pdfprint.exe -raster2 -raster2center -printermargins C:\input.pdf

If you would like to know more functions of this software, please check them on our website. During the using, if you have any question, please contact us as soon as possible.