Print-a-List-of-Files-Step-1-Version-2.jpg/aid1384497-v4-728px-Print-a-List-of-Files-Step-1-Version-2.jpg' alt='Microsoft Word Command Line Switches Printing' title='Microsoft Word Command Line Switches Printing' />Print Files from Batch Files. Print Text Files. In Windows, ASCII files can be printed using the classic PRINT command PRINT mytext. D LPT2. By default, PRINT will send its output to LPT1. S3Fo.png' alt='Microsoft Word Command Line Switches Printing' title='Microsoft Word Command Line Switches Printing' />Calls one batch program from another. CALL drivepathfilename batchparameters batchparameters Specifies any commandline information required by the. For SQL Server 2014 and lower, see sqlcmd Utility. The sqlcmd utility lets you enter TransactSQL statements, system procedures, and script files at the command. When printing from Office 2013 to a HP Laserjet Word,Excel,Powerpoint 2013 will hang with Windows Host Process Rundll32 Not Responding. We need to scrub the driver. By using the D switch, a different printer port can be used. On most modern computers, PRINT will be useless, because it needs a printer port like LPT1 or COM1 etc., whereas most printers nowadays are connected either to USB ports or over a TCPIP connection. In those cases, a better alternative to the PRINT command is Notepad with its P switch NOTEPAD P whatever. REG files arent associated with Notepad at all by default they arent, and they shouldnt be. Notepad will send its output to Windows default printer. Likewise, Wordpad can print plain text as well as rich text using its P switch WORDPAD P whatever. Wordpad and then open the Print dialog. Unlike Notepad, Wordpad does have a PT switch WORDPAD PT whatever. My. Printerwill open whatever. Wordpad, print whatever. My. Printer and then close Wordpad again. Print Registered File Types. Files that have a file type association in Windows 9. NT2. 00. 0 can be printed using the right mouse button assuming you didnt swap mouse buttons. However, most visitors to this site are probably more interested in using the command line instead of the GUI. On this page I will explain how you can use the file association to print a file from the command line. There is a limitation to this technique, however for most file types, Print opens Windows print dialogue for the file, so the user still has to click the Print or OK button. Usually, Print. To commands are executed without user interaction, but they do require a printer name as their second command line argument. Print. HTM. bat. When you start Windows Explorer and click the View menu entry, then Options., and choose the File Types tab, you will see a list of all file types with their associations. If it was just the associations we were after, we could have used ASSOCIATE. EXE from the Resource Kit, but in this case we are more interested in the print commands. Scroll through the list and select HTML Document. Microsoft Word Command Line Switches Printing' title='Microsoft Word Command Line Switches Printing' />Depending on your Windows version, click the Advanced or Edit button. In the Actions list you should now see at least these 3 options Edit. The option in bold face is the one started when you double click a file of this type. Select print and click the Edit button beside or below the Actions list. This will open a dialogue titled Edit action for type HTML Document. It is the value of the field Application used to perform action that we are after. On most systems it will read something like this rundll. C WINDOWSSystemmshtml. Print. HTML 1or rundll. C WINNTSystem. Print. HTML 1Since the directory for the DLL is where RUNDLL3. EXE will look by default, we can leave it out to make the command more generic RUNDLL3. EXE MSHTML. DLL,Print. HTML 1This command can be used to print HTML files from a batch file. The following example is NT only, but with a few modifications it can be used in Windows 9. Do not expect these modifications to be easy reading, though. ECHO OFF. Command line parsing. SET File. 2Print. ECHO. File. 2Print FIND NUL. IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO Syntax. Strip leading space in NT 4 only. VER FIND Windows NT NUL. IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 IF DEFINED File. Print SET File. 2PrintFile. Print 1. IF DEFINED File. Print SET File. 2PrintFile. Print. IF NOT DEFINED File. Tutorial on use of fields in Microsoft Word one of the tutorials in the Microsoft Word Intermediate Users Guide. Contains numerous links to other online resources. This July, we asked for software tips from the 2017 Microsoft Office National Champions, a set of charming teens who are officially the best at using PowerPoint, Word. I had two problems with using Acrobat Reader for this task. The command line API is not officially supported, so it could change or be removed without warning. When most people think of the old DOS command prompt window that archaic, lingering vestige of computer days gone by they think of those simple commands that. Print GOTO Syntax. IF NOT EXIST File. Print GOTO Syntax. Actual print command. RUNDLL3. 2. EXE MSHTML. DLL,Print. HTML File. Print. ECHO Print. HTM. bat, Version 1. Windows NT. ECHO Prints a local HTML file from the command line. ECHO Written by Rob van der Woude. ECHO http www. ECHO Usage n. Print. PDF. bat. Now that one was easy, using RUNDLL3. DLL. How about PDF files, for example Can a batch file for printing PDF files be made generic enough to cope with different installations and versions of Adobe Acrobat ReaderYou may have guessed I wouldnt have asked if the answer had been NO. Note There is one restriction, though this batch file will only work when PDF files default association is any Acrobat Reader version. This means that if you have Acrobat Writer installed on your PC, this batch file will fail. As of version 1. 2. Thanks to Chuck Hicks for this addition. Thanks to Michael Lintner for his modification to enable long file names. Thanks to Fabio Quieti for adding the T switch, which automatically closes the Adobe Reader window after printing the file note this T switch has only been tested with Adobe Reader 7. By using ASSOC, FTYPE and REGEDIT to read the PDF print command from the registry we can print PDF files from within batch files ECHO OFF. Check Windows version, abort if not NT 4 or later. IF NOT OSWindowsNT GOTO Syntax. SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION. Initialize variables. SET TempTemp. SET Multi. Print0. Check command line arguments. IF 1 GOTO Syntax. IF NOT 3 GOTO Syntax. IF 2. SET File. Spec1. IF I 1M SET File. Spec2. IF I 2M SET File. Spec1. ECHO. FIND I M NUL SET Multi. Print1. ECHO. File. Spec FIND NUL GOTO Syntax. IF NOT EXIST File. Spec GOTO Syntax. Count the number of files specified by filespec. FOR A IN File. Spec DO SET A Num. Files Num. Files IF Num. Files EQU 0 GOTO Syntax. Check if we need to have access to a list of processes. IF Num. Files GTR 1 SET Multi. Print1. IF Multi. Print EQU 0 CALL Get. List. Tool. Get the file association from the registry. FOR F tokens1delims A IN ASSOC. PDF DO. FOR F tokens1 delims C IN FTYPE FIND I B DO. CALL Get. Print. Command C. Check if a print command was found. IF NOT DEFINED Print. Cmd. ECHO No print command seems to be associated with. PDF files on this computer. Print the file using the print command we just found. FOR A IN File. Spec DO CALL Exec. Print. Command f. A. A final message. IF Multi. Print1. Tamil Translation Software Free Download on this page. ECHO You will need to close the Acrobat Reader window manually after the printing. ECHO is finished. IF Num. Files1 IF List. Tool. ECHO To close that window automatically next time you print a single PDF file. ECHO download and install PSLIST from the Microsoft website. ECHO https technet. Exec. Print. Command. CALL echo START MIN Print. PDF Print. Cmd. Now we need to find a tool to check for processes. In XP and later this will be the native TASKLIST command. NT 4 and 2. 00. 0 well need to find a non native tool. First well try TASKLIST. TASKLIST NUL 2 1. IF ERRORLEVEL 1. REM. TASKLIST isnt available well try TLIST next. TLIST NUL 2 1. IF ERRORLEVEL 1. REM. and if that isnt available either well try PSLIST. PSLIST NUL 2 1. IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 SET List. ToolPSLIST. SET List. ToolTLIST. SET List. ToolTASKLIST. Dont worry if we didnt find ANY tool to list processes, in. PDFs need to be printed. IF List. Tool SET Multi. Print1. Get. Print. Command. Get the print command for this file type from the registry. START WAIT REGEDIT. EXE E Temp. pdf. HKEYCLASSESROOT1shellprintcommand. IF NOT EXIST Temp. GOTO EOF. FOR F tokens1delims D IN TYPE TEMP. FIND DO SET Print. CmdE. DEL Temp. pdf. SET Print. CmdPrint.