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RHyppa's avatar
RHyppa
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Can I print several .pdf's at one time

I received about 75 .pdf's, can I print them all at once, or do I have to print each one separately? Thanks.

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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
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    2 years ago

    Hey RHyppa - thanks for posting on our Community.

     

    You should be able to print multiple files just like you would with any other files, even ones that were not shared with you via Dropbox. 

     

    That said, the printing function would be coming from your computer's OS and/or the web browser/software you're using to print those files - not Dropbox. 

     

    Let us know if there's anything else we can assist with. 

  • RHyppa's avatar
    RHyppa
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago
    My problem was that I usually have to open one PDF at a time, tell my computer to print it and then my printer will do that as I move to the second pdf. I was able to resolve this issue by having the person who sent the documents to Dropbox do a batch merge, so I can print all the documents. And I found that there are 417 pages so I probably won't print them all right away, that was more help, knowing the total number of pages. Thank you for your comment.
  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    Legendary | Level 20
    2 years ago

    RHyppa wrote:

    I received about 75 .pdf's, can I print them all at once, or do I have to print each one separately? Thanks.


    Hi RHyppa,

    Walter is correct; that's something that's handled locally and usually you cannot rely on a cloud service (if not a printing one) to deal with this. Unfortunately, most of the application for everyday work cannot handle more than single file at once. There are some command line tools that are able to handle such a work though. Such a cross platform tool, available on all Dropbox supported platforms (Mac, Linux, and Windows), is "lpr". It can pass for print a pdf, passed as argument, to your printer. If you loop through all your pdf, you can print them at once using "lpr". For instance, on Mac and Linux to enumerate all pdf's in your Dropbox and print them at once, you can use "find" command, i.e. something like:

    find Dropbox -type f -iname '*.pdf' -exec lpr '{}' \;

    Using this command let you print all pdfs in particular folder (denoted here as Dropbox, but you can point any other folder using correct path to there). In Windows you'll need some other tool to enumerate files - there are equivalent ways.

    Hope this helps.

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