Printing a selection of pages to PDF

[andrewdeegan]

Good afternoon,

 

Not sure if i have put this post in the correct place. Apologies if I have.

 

I have a large volume of PDFs that I need to print for class teachers but I only want to print pages 1-3 of each document.

 

I do not want to open each document and pint a page selection.

 

Is there a way to save these settings like you would a printing profile.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Andrew

[mrwoberts]

Here's a workable solution.

 

Download this portable PDF reader - Download Sumatra PDF - a free reader

I'm going to assume you've extracted it to D:\SumatraPDF

 

This would be the command to print the first three pages of a pdf document, to the default printer.

D:\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe -print-to-default -print-settings "1-3" "exampleDoc.pdf"

 

Put all your PDFs into a folder, for example D:\PDFsToPrint\

 

Then use this script to print the first three pages of every PDF within D:\PDFsToPrint

 

for /f %%G in ('dir /a:-d /b D:\PDFsToPrint\*.pdf') do (
   D:\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe -print-to-default -print-settings "1-3" "%%G"
)