When you read pdf files, normally speaking, you would like to start from the first page. How are you going to edit pdf to specify the first shown page for pdf reader? The VeryPDF.com already tailored Advanced PDF Tools Command Line for you. It is helpful to edit pdf files according to your preferences. The rest part of this article is developed to show how to specify the first shown page for pdf reader using Advanced PDF Tools Command Line.
Follow this link you will obtain this useful help https://www.verypdf.com/pdfinfoeditor/advanced_pdf_tools_cmd.zip. In order to execute this function, you need to launch the MS-DOS command prompt window, steps are as follows:
start the dialog box of “cmd.exe”: press “start”>choose “Run”>input “cmd”>press “ok”
Now, you will have the below box propped up
Following steps are specified for typing command line to edit pdf
the command line is pdftools -i "C:\input.pdf" -o "C:\output.pdf" -w number
where the option -w is to set the current page when opening the PDF file and "number" is the open page number. Here to specify the first shown page for pdf reader, you can set page 1.
Armed with this, you are clear of the command line is pdftools -i "C:\input.pdf" -o "C:\output.pdf" -w 1
After you input it, you can press “enter” key, and then the following box will appear
where the test.pdf presents input.pdf, the test1.pdf presents output.pdf
Till now, you can open the file to check whether the first shown page was specified
Through the screenshot you can see the first page was shown, which proves that specifying the first shown page. More operations on how to edit pdf using Advanced PDF Tools Command Line, you can refer to Advanced PDF Tools Command Line User Manual or just visit at https://www.verypdf.com.