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Hello, lumu First of all, you have a mistake in your command here: /Output: folder=path \"C:\Users \\ " This part of the command should look like this: /Output:folder=\"C:/Users/\" or /Output:folder=\"C:\Users\" This double backslash makes the command irregular, as well...

Hello lumu, I'm sorry, but you cannot pass any specific parameters for this action via the command line. The command line features be described at this link: https://help.pdf-xchange.com/pdfxt8/command-line-options_t.html . If you need to run the Split/Merge action with different parameters, you can...

Hello Caldorion, We have successfully reproduced the behavior you reported. It has been identified that the printer in PDF Tools is remembered only when you perform a print task after selecting a printer. Therefore, you can try choosing a preferred printer, perform some dummy printing via this tool,...

Hello, Andreas Lung. You can use the 'Find by Regular Expression' action but cannot control how many words you will get using a regular expression. You can create a regular expression that matches one, two, or more words, but not a dynamic amount. However, it is also possible to limit the character ...

Hello, dustinbagley As Stefan mentioned, you indeed have a typo in your command, but he missed the target a bit :) The unnecessary backslash is in the input path. It should be "C:\TEST\Input" instead of "C:\TEST\Input \ ". There are several rules for composing the CLI command. Th...

Hello, dustinbagley, First of all, could you please provide which version of PDF-Tools you are using? Then, how is your Split/Merge tool configured? You can provide a screenshot, or make a tool export by right-clicking on the tool and selecting 'Export Selected Tools'. Also, you can try running the ...

Hello, biofunc 2. print a copy (you will want to configure which printer to use, the other options to fit to margins, auto-rotate on page, and select paper by sheet size are enabled) Yes, it works and at the end of the printing process I am asked to save the file (see #3). I was hoping to skip this ...

Hello maksimzhang, You are right, there is indeed a bug in the last version. It will be fixed in the nearest release, which is coming soon. But for now, could you please provide more details about what you intend to do? This additional information could help me suggest a workaround. E.g. if your goa...

Hello biofunc, As Stefan mentioned, the ability to do this kind of filtering with PDF-Tools isn't possible right now. After talking with the Development Team, we think that adding this feature can be done. So, I'm hopeful it will be in the next release. I will reply to you here if we implement this ...

David.P, Yes, you are correct. When both 'Batch Processing Mode' and 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' are enabled, PDF-Tools does not save any documents until all of them have been processed. However, for OCR-ing documents alone, it is not necessary to have Batch Processing mode enabled. To improve ...

Hello, David.P I cannot reproduce your issue with the disappearing tool for now, but I have some remarks about your flow. What version of PDF-Tools are you using? If your version is not the newest, please, update it if possible, because some related issue was fixed in the latest build. the process o...

Hello biofunc, What version of PDF-Tools do you use? The latest build V10 (Build 370) has new 'Select only documents that do not fulfill the critera above' option. If you enable this options along with 'Select documents with text' + 'Any text' option, you will get 'Filter Documents' action that pass...

Hello, ragkag You are right, there is a bug that leads to that "files created" counter never changes. Bug has been localized and will be fixed in the next build. Unfortunatelly, there is no workaround for that issue. May I ask how are you going to use the "files created" counter?...

Hello, chrisjj

Are you still using Build 359? The issue was fixed in Build 360. Can you please update PDF Tools and check if it works for your case?

Best regards,

Hi, es42

I have reproduced the issue, it will be fixed in the nearest build.

Best regards,

Hello, Matthias Thanks to your explanations, I was able to reproduce the issue. I hope it will be fixed as soon as possible. For now, I can suggest you a simple workaround: 1. Turn off 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode'. 2. Run the tool once. It can be some kind of a dummy tool run using any documents...

Hello, Jensen Head Actually, there is shading presented when a tool is running. It might be not enough contrast, so the shade might be not visible on your monitor. During the tool run only the Tool Report pane and the Progress Bar are available for interaction. I've attached a screenshot, so you can...

Hello Daniel, I still cannot reproduce this issue. Can you please describe your workflow? Do you configure the tool once or import it every time before running? Do you run the tool via a graphical interface or via a command line interface? If you try to run the tool a second time without the applica...

Hello, Willy Van Nuffel

You are right, we are missing this option in PDF-Tools.
Thank you for your suggestion, I believe that we will implement this option in the nearest release.

Best regards,

Hello, Jensen Head

Actually, the Shell Menu feature for PDF-Tools was introduced in version 9.5.365.0.
You can find a short description and how to use this feature in PDF-Tools version history.

It should work, try it, please, and write here if you meet any difficulties.

Kind regards,

Hello, RufusRed Thank you for the additional information about your use case. As we said previously, we don't support such notification, but you can implement it by yourself using the 'Run Application' action. Add the 'Run Application' action to the end of your custom tool, and choose the attached V...

Hello RufusRed,

Could you, please, concretize what is your use case for this kind of message? Perhaps then we could suggest the most efficient way to solve your problem.

Best regards,

Since this topic is brought up again I want to say that operation requested in original post can be performed in PDF Tools with "Every N pages from different document" option of "Split/Merge Documents" action as shown on attached screenshot. This option will take pages one by one...

Hello Nimrod_189, The problem is that you are using Tool name instead of the required Tool ID. The Tool Name is not the same as the Tool ID. There are several ways to get the Tool ID: 1. Right click on tool and choose "Copy Tool Identifier", use it in your command line like: "PDFXTool...

Hello, biofunc How many pages can I Merge in a run (32 GB RAM)? As Paul said, it depends on documents which you are going to process. Anyway, if you run into any problems, you can turn off 'Batch processing mode' option until separate processing is expected (I mean that you don't want to merge all d...

Hello biofunc, As Paul said, it could be really challenging task. But, depending on your situation, some of our action could be helpful. First is 'Find by Regular Expression' action. You can find it in Tool Edit -> Actions Library(right pane) -> Find by Regular Expression . This action finds the fir...

Hello Jensen Head, For now that is not possible to remove source files after tool processing, but you can perform such operation using Folder Monitors. You can read more about Folder Monitors feature in help . Note that Folder Monitors first of all intended for continuous processing of files that al...

Hello, patrickm There is no hotkey to rename document(s) while the Split/Merge PDFs action is running. But it is possible to rename document(s) when the option "Show dialog for manual split/merge" is selected. image.png Choose the document you want renamed and then click on the rename comm...

Hello,

I have to clarify if the license key has been added and version of your application is correct.

Could you please send 2 screenshots:
1. Help -> About

2. Options -> Preferences -> Registration

Best regards,
Vladimir

Hello, PDF-XChange under the Extract Pages options adds the settings to "save each page to separate file" In PDF-Tools you should use 'Split/Merge PDFs' tool to perform such operation. Choose 'Every N pages in Separate document' option in 'Method' group, also choose pages count you want. F...

Hello, chrisjj, Obviously there is a bug in 'Split/Merge Documents' action with 'Actions with objects (Bookmarks)' option. There is no workaround using only 'Split/Merge Documents' action for now. The bug already fixed and fix will be available in the nearest build. But there is workaround using 'Op...

Hello Sebastien, Yes, this tool will create one PDF with all chosen images. If you want to convert images to PDF one by one, you can deselect "Batch processing mode"(look above red rectangle on Dimitar's screenshot) Also you can click "All options" or gear on the "Create PDF...

Hello, Adam Please clarify how to use PDF-Tools to execute some sequence of operations (converting, merging, put the comments into the files and so on) from the command line, using relative pointing of files and folders? PDF-Tools supports relative paths for input files, and /Output command's "...

Hello Dasy, be nice though if there was an automatic way of getting the right number based on the %[pages] value so 1-9 gives :1 10-99 gives :2 100-999 gives :3 1000-9999 gives :4 and so on automatically If you will use this macro for filename(without explicit setting number of digits): "%[File...

Hello, cunha00 Unfortunately, for now it is not possible to filter off(do not process) files that contain specific characters in the file name. You can only filter files by name that matches pattern. It is not clear what kind of work you exactly want do with PDF-Tools(filter files only or apply some...

Hello, Peter PDF-Tools also supports feature of dropping input files directly on Tool you want to run in Tools List. In that case, all kinds of "Choose files" dialogs will be skipped, dropped files will be filtered according to "File type" option of "Choose Input Files"...

Hello, galileo84 In new version of PDF-Tools sorting step is moved to 'Choose Input Files' action. If you want to set the order of input documents in merged document you should use 'Show extended dialog for files selecting' option of 'Choose Input Files' action. There you'll be able to add documents...

Hello, wohlhut In addition to what was said by Patick, PDF-Tools also provides "Merge Pages" tool, that works as "Merge Pages" option in PDF-XChange Editor, but could be applied as batch processing operation(for multiple documents). You can find this tool in "Pages" cat...

Hello, Michał! Is that crash could be reproduced only on virtual machine? What version of PDF-Tools are you running? Do you have the Print Document tool in Advanced category? If you have it, could you please try to avoid clicking on Print Document tool and look whether application will crash? Regard...

Hello, bqxmprij If you are using the "Split/Merge PDFs" tool, you can reorder documents on the "Choose Input Files" step in the Extended Choose Files Dialog. In order to show that dialog you have to enable the "Show extended dialog for file selecting" parameter for the ...

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