How Can I Print Attachments Within a PDF file from Command Line?

[jroes637]

For my organization, we have a lot of .pdf files, each of which contain multiple .pdf files within them as attachments (i.e. one single .pdf file that contains other .pdf files within it). I know I can print a .pdf file with the following command via command prompt.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe" /n /t "filetoprint.pdf" "\\printerserver\printername"

While this will print the .pdf in question, it does not print any attachments within the file "filetoprint.pdf". I've scoured google and these forums, yet I haven't seem to found a switch or anything that would enable me to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions? It needs to be done by command line. I would appreciate any help! Thanks!

~Justin

[jroes637 · Accepted solution]

After a lot more research, I found the answer. To start with, rather than using a .bat file, I used the Action wizard to set up a script. I then set the script to process all the files within a given folder. I changed the folder to the one that would contain all the .pdf files (including the attachments) that I wanted to process. I then wrote the following javascript::

var d = this.dataObjects;

var pp = this.getPrintParams();

pp.interactive = pp.constants.interactionLevel.silent;

pp.printerName = "\\\\printerserver\\printer";

this.print(pp);

var oDoc;

for (var i = 0; i < d.length; i++)
{

oDoc = this.openDataObject(d.name);

oDoc.print(pp);

}

Yeah, it's not from command line like I originally wanted, but it will still work for what I need to do. It looks like you can trigger an action from a VBA Macro or something, though at this point I think that's more trouble than it is worth. Anyways, hope this helps out anyone else who is having the same problem!

[DHD10]

I've created a form users can attach files to. Reviewers would like to print form with all attachments with one click. Will your Action Wizard solution work for just one document at a time? I'm a novice and was not clear on what to do after finding how to access the Action Wizard. Can you explain starting steps in more detail?