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Why Do We All Love HTML to PDF Command Line?

HTML to PDF Command Line is a CMD application for Windows users to realize manual or script controls with command line, which could be mainly used for processes from HTML to PDF, HTML to PS, HTML to TIFF etc.. Moreover, different licenses could provide users different simple operation indeed. Here, if you are interested in HTML to PDF Command Line, and want to try this CMD tool, it is convenient for you to click here. The top features of HTML to PDF Command Line are as follows, which could help you know HTML to PDF Command Line further:
  • Supported systems - 32 bits and 64 bits Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 systems.
  • No problem for running alone.
  • Various input formats - HTML, EMF, WMF and RTF
  • Various output formats - PDF, PS (PostScript), TIF (TIFF), JPG (JPEG), GIF, PNG, PCX, TGA, JP2, BMP, WMF, EMF and PNM.
  • No problem for HTML files including asp, css, cookie, cgi, Java Applets, flash.
  • Merge multiple source files to single PDF.
  • Various encryption modes and different permissions for protecting PDF files safely and flexibly with open password and owner password.
  • Repair some special WMF files professionally
  • Flexible PDF information
  • Processes in batches with wildcard characters etc..
  • Different objective resolution and bit count.
  • Split objective files easily and directly
  • Edit link levels accordingly
  • Set watermark, e.g, font, location, color etc..
  • Edit bookmarks flexibly
  • Create PS files with different paths
  • Set web browser window size to adjust HTML page automatically.
  • Customize paper size for HTML to PDF conversion.
  • Set page orientation (portrait or landscape) for HTML Conversion.
  • Support frames with HTML webpage.
  • Retain hyperlinks from HTML to PDF.
  • Compress images with compression filter
  • Flexible PDF margins
Besides command line, HTML to PDF application could provide you other version, like GUI version etc.. And want to know more about HTML to PDF Command Line and other versions, please enter here. Of course, to know more supported parameters and how to use HTML to PDF Command Line more accurately, when you convert HTML to PDF, HTML to PS, or HTML to TIFF etc. singly or in batches, please enter user manual.
PDF Password Remover

PDF Password Remover

If you have some PDF documents which are protected by the encryptions from being printed, modified, copied or added annotation, maybe you need remove password from the PDF document. The application which will help you do this kind of word is VeryPDF PDF Password Remover.

PDF Password Remover is a professional program which is specially designed to remove password for encrypted PDF document so that you can easily do different operations to the files like copy, print, modify, etc. By using this application, you don’t need any other PDF reader or maker, which means that it is a stand-along application. Both 40-bit and 128-bit encryptions are all supported by PDF Password Remover. Both GUI and command line methods are supported.

To use the application, you need to download it via clicking here and double click the installer, follow the setup wizard to fulfill the installation. Now you will be able to use this program to remove password from encrypted PDF documents.
mario blue star GUI method

Step1. Open the application and add files

By double clicking the application icon or open the Start menu, you can all open PDF Password Remover easily. Please see the main interface in Figure 1. When you want to add encrypted PDF file into it, you can use any one of the listed ways below:

remove password in Password Remover

Figure 1

  • Click Open PDF (s) button and choose the document (s) you want to add.
  • Directly drag and drop the PDF (s) into the interface of PDF Password Remover.

Note: If you have added in PDF without any encryptions, Error which shows File is not encrypted will appear in file list.

Step2. Remove password and save target file

After adding PDF (s) into the application, the window for saving target file will popup automatically.(Note: Please input a new name instead of the original file name). Then click Save button. The above interface will display with the status of the password removal. When the process is over, it will remind you "Succeed" and then you can view the target file which can be opened in any PDF viewer without any restrictions at once.

mario blue starCommand line method

To perform batch conversion or call conversion procedure from an automation script, you can either run this tool directly from command line or call it from any script. When using the command line, you can drag the executable file pdfdecrypt.exe which locates in installation folder to MS-DOS interface and click Enter button to see its usage like the following one:

Usage: pdfdecrypt [options] 

There is an example for your reference:

pdfdecrypt -i C:\sample.pdf -o C:\decrypt.pdf

In the command line, pdfdecrypt stands for the called program and you need to use its full path when calling it. –I with C:\sample.pdf stands for the path of source file. –o with C:\decrypt.pdf stands for the path of target file. Then please hit Enter button to run the conversion.

In addition, PDF Password Remover also supports the following options:

-i [pdf file name] : decrypt PDF filename or directory.
-o [pdf file name] : PDF file will be generated.
If you not specify the -o parameter, the default output file will overwrite the input PDF file.
-u: user password.
-w : owner password.
-v: view the decrypted PDF file after decryption.
-l [log file name] : specify log file for output message.
-?: help.
-h: help.
 

If you want to get more information about Password Remover, just enter its homepage by clicking here.

Two Ways to Use Document Converter

Two Ways to Use Document Converter

Document Converter is the professional version of VeryPDF Document Printer which contains two kinds of virtual printer: docPrint and docPrint PDF Driver. This Pro version—Document Converter contains GUI and command line applications inside and they can all convert varieties of printable documents to PDF or some kinds of image formats and set parameters for the target file. This article will show you how to use this application by GUI way and command line way.

First of all, please download the application via clicking here. Only by following the setup wizard, you will be easily fulfill the installation task.

GUI way

1. Open the application and add file (s)

You can open the GUI application by clicking the application icon or open it through Start menu. Please see the user-friendly interface of Document Converter in Figure 1. There is a file list in the interface and if you want to add document (s) into it, you can use any one of the following ways:(Here we take DOC document as the example)

add file (s) in Document Converter

Figure 1

  • Click the button image to open file picker window and choose document (s) in it.
  • Click File (F)—Add Files to open the file picker window.
  • Click Insert button to open file picker window.
  • Click File (F)—Add Directory to choose the documents in some folder, which is designed for batch conversion.

2. Make Settings

  • Please click image button to open the setting window which contains five tabs. Please see Basic Setting tab in Figure 2. To convert DOC to PDF document, you need to choose the output format as .pdf in Output format dropdown list. If you want to view the target file after conversion, please check the option View after conversion.

 

Basic setting tab

Figure 2

  • In Save Image Mode tab shown in Figure 3, you are able to set the image color depth as 1, 8 or 24-bit in Image Color Depth dropdown list. You can also select image resolution in Image Resolution dropdown list. The options in this tab will be useful when you choose output format as image format.

image setting

Figure 3

  • You can set the parameters for output PDF document in next three tabs. Please see Save PDF Mode tab in Figure 4. You can choose PDF making ways in Make PDF files mode group box, specify the save mode for target file in Save mode group box, select the destination for newly created PDF document in Destination group box.

save PDF

Figure 4

  • In PDF Info tab, you can edit PDF descriptions like Title, Author, Keywords, etc. Please see it in Figure 5.

edit PDF description

Figure 5

  • To encrypt PDF document, you can set user and master passwords in PDF Security tab shown in Figure 6. You can also check different permissions to allow the created PDF documents being printed, modified, copied, etc.

encrypt PDF

Figure 6

3. Run the conversion

Then please click OK button and click Start button in main interface of Document Converter to run the conversion from DOC to PDF in batches. The conversion will come to the end several seconds later.

Command line way

The executable file doc2pdf.exe in installation folder of Document Converter is the command line called program and you need to call it in MS-DOS interface. Please open MS-DOS interface by clicking Start—Run and input cmd in Open combo box, then click OK button. For learning the usage of the command line application, you can drag doc2pdf.exe into MS-DOS interface to see its usage as shown in Figure 7.

command line usage

Figure 7

There are three examples which are written by following the command line usage.

  • doc2pdf -s openpwd=123 -s ownerpwd=456 -s keylen=0 -s permission=3900 -i C:\test.doc -o C:\out.pdf
  • doc2pdf -a "Author" -i C:\input.dwg -o C:\output.pdf
  • doc2pdf -i C:\test.pdf -o C:\out.tif -c 4 -b 1 -r 200
  • doc2pdf -i C:\*.doc -o C:\*.pdf

The first three examples are for convert single file. The first one is to convert DOC to PDF and set open password as 123 and owner password as 456. The key length is set as 0 which stands for 40 bit RC4 encryption. Permission is 3900 which means denying anything. The second one is to convert DWG to PDF file and set PDF author as Author. The third one is to convert PDF to TIF format and compress the target file with CCITT Group 4 fax encoding method, set color depth as 1-bit, specify output resolution as 200 DPI.

The last example is for converting DOC to PDF in batches.

There are more useful information about Document Converter at its homepage. If you are interested in it, just enter the page now!

Why Is PCL to PDF Command Line So Practical?

PCL to PDF Command Line is designed for helping Windows users convert PCL to PDF with command line easily.  This CMD application allows you to print PCL, PXL and PX3 to PDF, PS, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PCX and PXL mainly. Based on elementary processes like above, PCL to PDF Command Line could bring you various objective properties so that it could really satisfy your requirements quickly!  Supported systems: PCL to PDF Command Line needs to run in Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/2008 of both 32 and 64-bit Experience PCL to PDF Command Line, please feel free to click on here. Usage of PCL to PDF Command Line:

pcltool.exe [options] <supported source file> [<supported target file>]

 Supported input and output formats, including raster and vector image formats:

  • Input formats – PCL, PXL, PX3, PRN
  • Output formats – PDF, PS, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PCX, PXL
Top and practical supported options of PCL to PDF Command Line:
  • About objective width and height: pcltool.exe -width 800 -height 600 d:\in.pcl e:\out.tif
  • About objective resolution: pcltool.exe –xres 300 –yres 300 d:\in2.pcl e:\out2.tif
  • About objective image bit-count: pcltool.exe –bitcount 8 d:\in2.pcl e:\out2.tif
  • About objective rotation: pcltool.exe –rotate 180 d:\in2.pcl e:\out2.tif (180 could be changed to 90, 270)
  • About merging PDF with 4 ways if file exists: pcltool.exe –append 2 d:\in2.pcl e:\out2.pdf
where –append 2 could be also: -append 0: Overwrite if PDF file exists -append 1: Insert before first page of existed PDF file -append 2: Append to last page of existed PDF file -append 3: Rename filename existed PDF file
  • About merging PDF normally with various ways:
-mergepdf <string>: Merge two PDF files into one PDF file -mergepdf "file1|file2|file3|...": Merge several PDF files into one -mergepdf "C:\filelist.txt": Merge PDF files from a .txt file -mergepdf "C:\test.pdf*100-200*250-300": Extract page ranges from PDF file -mergepdf "C:\*.pdf": Merge PDF files into one PDF file
  • About encrypting PDF: pcltool.exe –openpwd 222222 –keylen 1 –ownerpwd 123456 –encryption 16 d:\in2.pcl e:\out2.pdf
Also maybe you need to know the following: -openpwd <string>: Set 'open password' to PDF file -keylen 0:  40 bit RC4 encryption (Acrobat 3 or higher) -keylen 1: 128 bit RC4 encryption (Acrobat 5 or higher) -keylen 2: 128 bit RC4 encryption (Acrobat 6 or higher) -ownerpwd <string>: Set 'owner password' to PDF file -encryption    0: Encrypt the file only -encryption 3900: Deny anything -encryption    4: Deny printing -encryption    8: Deny modification of contents -encryption   16: Deny copying of contents -encryption   32: No commenting ===128 bit encryption only -> ignored if 40 bit encryption is used -encryption  256: Deny FillInFormFields -encryption  512: Deny ExtractObj -encryption 1024: Deny Assemble -encryption 2048: Disable high res. printing -encryption 4096: Do not encrypt metadata
  • About bursting PDF into single PDF page:
-burstpdf <string>: Burst PDF file into single page PDF files …   … … … For more supported options, please go to official website of PCL to PDF Command Line. To know how to use PCL to PDF Command Line and other versions of PCL to PDF Converter, please go to user guide page.
A Powerful PDF Maker—PDF Creator

A Powerful PDF Maker—PDF Creator

Maybe you need to convert multiple kinds of file formats to PDF document everyday. Do you have a helpful handy tool? If not, please choose VeryPDF PDF Creator which is a virtual printer designed for you to create PDF document from any kinds of printable documents, including file formats of MS Office, OpenOffice, TXT, HTML, Webpage, AutoCAD, various image formats, etc. It is also a good tool for editing PDF description, encrypting PDF document, emailing created PDF, etc.

In this article, you will see how to use PDF Creator to create PDF document. Before knowing how it works, you need to download and install it on your computer by following the installation wizard. In the end of the installation, you will be reminded whether to set this virtual printer as default printer. Of course, you are recommended to choose Yes if you need to create PDF document often. Please see the introduction for this application in below contents.

Set parameters

You will not see PDF Creator in your computer disk because it locates in Printers and Faxes folder. Please find it, right click the printer and click Properties—Printing Preferences to open the window which contains ten tabs. Then you can set different parameters in each tab.

Page Setup

In this tab, you can customize PDF page size, page margin, page orientation, PDF graphic resolution, etc. according to your needs.

set PDF page

Figure 1

Compression

In this tab, you can compress color, grayscale or Monochrome image for created PDF document with different kinds of compression methods to reduce the PDF size.

compress PDF

Figure 2

Doc Info

In this tab, you can choose the version for output PDF document for suite different PDF reader or viewer. You can also edit PDF description like Title, Subject, Author, etc.

edit PDF description

Figure 3

Save as

In this tab, you can choose the output location for target files if you want to create PDF documents in batches. You can also the rename methods. For viewing the target file at the first time when the conversion is over, please check the option View after creation.

save PDF in batches

Figure 4

Font Embedding

You can add all the fonts appear in source file in this tab so that the created PDF document can be successfully read in any PDF viewer or any computer.

embed font

Figure 5

Security

In this tab, you can choose to encrypt PDF by adding open password to protect the document from being opened freely or set permissions for protecting the document from being modified, copied, printed, etc. The encryption level can be set as 40 or 128-bit.

encrypt PDF

Figure 6

Email

This tab enables you to email the created PDF document to your friends, families, etc. via SMTP server. You just need to input the address of recipients, Outgoing SMTP Server, your authentication user name and password. Then check Email after creation in Save as tab shown in Figure 4, this function will be activated.

email PDF

Figure 7

Then please click OK button. When you want to create PDF document, you just need to print the document to PDF Creator, then the conversion will be done. There are also Pro version and COM version of PDF Creator for your requirements. For more information, please visit its homepage.