Combine PDF file via command line
A convenient option for PDF Combine is the ability to work directly from the command line. We also offer a special server version called PDF Combine X.
Usage of the command line prompt is as follows:
PDFCombine.exe <source> <destination> <options>
If you choose to use an existing folder on your computer such as "My
Documents", be sure to use quotations for any folders or file names with spaces.
Sample: PDFCombine.exe C:\Folder1\ C:\Folder2\ C:\Folder3\ C:\Dest.PDF -r
PDFCombine will take all the pdf files from Folder1, Folder2, Folder3 and merge them. The result will appear in Dest.pdf. -r means the recursive search (if there are more folders inside Folder1&2&3 PDF Combine will merge them as well).
How To Combine PDF Via Command Line
Options:
-log - Don`t show errors. Write them to the log file
-verbosity - Log file verbosity
- error - Write to log file only errors (default)
- detail - Write detailed log file
-logmode - Log file mode
- overwrite - Overwrite (default)
- append - Append
-xmllog - XML format log file name
-list - File with files mask to convert. Simple text file, each file on new line
-Recurse:off - Include subfolders
-do - Delete originals
-kfs - Keep folder structure
-kfl:off - Keep folder level
-fo - Force overwrite existed files
-limit - Limit converted files to count
-ds:off - Copy original date stamps to converted documents
-sort - Sort source file list
- unsorted - Unsorted, natural order (default)
- name - Sort by file name
- date - Sort by file modification date
- numbers - Sort by numbers in file name
-ext - Use custom extension for output files
-optionfile - text file with options to use, "opt=value", one line - one option definition
-c - Convert to
-Head:off - Turn off header text
-HeadText - Header text. Where [page] - Page Number and [date] - current date
-HeadAlign - Header align
- left - align left
- right - align right
- center - align center
-HeadFont - Header font name
-HeadSize - Header font size
-Foot:off - Turn off footer text
-FootText - Footer text. Where [page] - Page Number and [date] - current date
-FootAlign - Footer align
- left - align left
- right - align right
- center - align center
-FootFont - Footer font name
-FootSize - Footer font size
-HeadImage - Draw picture on the header
-HeadImageAlign - Header image align
- left - align left
- right - align right
- center - align center
-FooterImage - Draw picture on the footer
-FooterImageAlign - Footer image align
- left - align left
- right - align right
- center - align center
-bookmark:off - Creates Table of Bookmarks. When several files are combined each filename becomes a bookmark. Table of bookmarks will show you the content of the combined file
-bfile - Bookmarks as filenames. If you do NOT want the bookmarks be the filenames place the desired names of bookmarks into separate file and set that file as Bookmark
-combine - How to combine documents
- onefile - All documents into one file
- folder - Separate files by folders
- name - Separate files by common name part
-npr - Range you want to analyze for grouping files by name
-bstyle - Set Bookmark style
- none - No bookmarks
- title - Create bookmarks from pdf document titles
- file - Create bookmarks from document file names
- list - Use bookmarks list
-bfolders:off - For bookmarks style 'file' create bookmaks by folders
-bpdf:off - For bookmarks style 'file' add bookmaks from source documents
-odd - use 'blank' for add blank page to odd pages documents or file name of existing pdf document
-pvl - PDF initial page layout
- sp - Single page
- oc - One column
- tcol - Two columns, odd-numbered pages on left
- tcor - Two columns, odd-numbered pages on right
- tpol - Two pages, odd-numbered pages on left
- tpor - Two pages, odd-numbered pages on right
-pvm - PDF initial page mode
- normal - Normal view
- outlines - Show the outlines pane
- thumbnails - Show the thumbnails pane
- fullscreen - Show the document in full screen mode
- optional - Optional content group panel visible
- attachments - Attachments panel visible
-mp - PDF master (owner) password
-up - PDF user password
-perm - PDF user permissions
- Print - Print
- Copy - Copy
- Modify - Modify
- Annotation - Annotation
- FormFill - FormFill
- Accessibility - Accessibility
- DocAssembly - DocAssembly
- HighResPrint - HighResPrint
-PFXFile - PFX File for sign document
-PFXPass - The password to open the PFX file
-SignName - The name of the signature field to sign
-SignLoc - The location that the signing was done
-SignCon - The contact information of the signer
-SignRes - The reason for signing document
-PDFAuthor - PDF document author
-PDFSubject - PDF document subject
-PDFTitle - PDF document title
-PDFProducer - PDF document Producer
-pdfa:off - PDF/A compatibility mode
-pdfver - PDF document format version 1.2 - 1.6
-pdfzoom - PDF document default page zoom
- default - default
- fitwindow - fit to window
- fitwidth - fit width
- 10 - 10%
- 25 - 25%
- 50 - 50%
- 75 - 75%
- 100 - 100%
- 150 - 150%
- 200 - 200%
- 400 - 400%
-coverstyle - Cover page properties
- None - None
- First - First
- Custom - Custom
-coverfile - Cover page file
-content:off - Insert table of content
-toclinestyle - PDF content line style
- None - None
- Dot - Dot
- Solid - Solid
-toclinecolor - PDF content line color
-tocfont - PDF content font, [font name, font size, font color]
-tocmargins - PDF content page margins (inch), [left,top,right,bottom]
You can use macros in the Destination path:
- <DATE[:format]> - current date, default format is yyyymmdd
- <TIME[:format]> - current time, default format hhmmss
For example: destination C:\<DATE>_<TIME:hhmm> will produce file C:\20170719_1245. Find more samples below.
Examples:
- PDFCombine.exe C:\Dest.pdf -list C:\List.txt -bstyle File
All the files that are infrom List.txt will be placed to Dest.pdf and create bookmarks from document file names
- PDFCombine.exe C:\Src???.pdf C:\Dest.pdf
All the files C:\Src???.pdf (any symbol instead of ?) will be placed to Dest.pdf. WildCard support
- PDFCombine.exe C:\Folder1\ C:\Dest.PDF -HeadText "[page] of [count]" -HeadAlign Center
PDFCombine will take all the pdf files from Folder1 and merge them to Dest.pdf and add page number in the header of the page.
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