You can use VeryPDF Document Converter (docPrint Pro) to convert any type of documents created by Office to PCL by command line. VeryPDF Document Converter is an all-to-all document converter and it provides four applications. The one that can help you solve the problem is docPrint Pro Command Line.
Please click VeryPDF Document Converter to download the converter. If you open the installation folder, you can find the executable file doc2pdf.exe there. Technically, doc2pdf.exe is docPrint Pro Command Line. The following will take to steps to explain how to use docPrint Pro Command Line (doc2pdf.exe) to convert Office to PCL.
The first step is to open a command prompt window. No matter which of the following versions of Windows are you in: Windows 7, Vista, or XP; you can always use the same method to open a command line:
- Open the Start menu by clicking the Start button
- Hover over All Programs
- Point to Accessories
- Click Command Prompt
As the command prompt window pops out, you should proceed to the next step.
The second step is to type a command line according to the basic usage of docPrint Pro Command Line (doc2pdf.exe). The following is the usage:
doc2pdf [options] <-i Document Files> [-o Output]
Here are two typical examples: The first one can convert a single DOCX file to PCL, the second one can convert multiple PPTX files to PCL in a batch.
- "C:\docPrint Pro v5.0\doc2pdf.exe" -i C:\in.docx -o D:\out.pcl
- "C:\docPrint Pro v5.0\doc2pdf.exe" -i C:\*.pptx -o D:\*.pcl
After you type your command line, please press Enter. You can also use docPrint Pro Command Line to convert other Office file formats like PPT, XLS, POT, DOT, and PPTM. Furthermore, docPrint Pro Command Line supports output option setting. You can add more options to a command line to set color depth, resolution, page size, orientation, page range, etc. If you are interested, please visit http://verypdf.com/artprint/index.html