Can I print several .pdf's at one time

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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.

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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.