All Command Line Switches

Switch

Meaning

/J{File}

Specify a 'Conversion Job' file (*.SII) to be done. You must have previously created a 'Conversion Job' file to use this switch.

/S{File}

Input PDF File(s) to be converted.

A single file including its complete path can be specified for a one file conversion. For example:

/S"D:\MyImageFiles\AccountsDetail.PDF"

If specifying a single file, make sure that the /T switch also specifies a single output file. For example:

/T"D:\OutputFiles\Out.BMP"

Alternatively, you can specify whole folders by using the wildcard syntax. For example:

/S"D:\MyImageFiles\*.pdf"

If specifying a whole folder, make sure the /T also specifies a whole folder. For example:

/T"D:\OutputFiles\*.TIF"

Use double quotes around the path to ensure it works properly.

See also /R for sub folders.

/T{File}

Output File(s) to be created when converting the Input file(s) to images.

See the /S{File} switch description for proper use of the /T{File} switch when specifying a single or multiple files to convert.

This switch is ignored if the /G switch is used.

/C #

Tells 'Convert PDF To Image' what the output file type is. This is mandatory if your /T switch specifies a non-standard output file type extension (for example /TC:\AmbiguousFileType.abc ) . You must supply a number for the # symbol. For all possible numbers see File Type Constants.

The /C switch is not needed if your /T switch specifies a standard file type extension.

/G

Save files to the same location as the input folder(s). Use this instead of /T to place the converted files in the same folder as the input file. Cannot be used when converting a single file. For a single file use the /T switch instead.

You must use the /C# switch when using the /G switch.

Files will be saved with the same name as the input but with a different file extension as specified by the /C# switch.

You cannot specify a different name for the output file when using the /G switch.

/V

Verbose mode. Specify this switch to display a message box indicating how the conversion went. See also /L and /E.

/R

Recursive sub folders. Seek out and do all files found in the sub-folders specified in the /S switch.  You may add this switch if you are processing whole folders of files. See /S, /T and /G for more details on selecting whole directories to be converted.

/L{File}

Log file path and name (e.g. /L"D:\MyLogs\ConvertPDFtoImage.LOG"). If this switch is specified a log file with the given path and name will be created and the results of the conversion will be written to it. See also /V and /E.

/B{File}

Save the Log file as a 'Conversion Job' ONLY IF ERRORS OCCURRED. This is useful if the files that had problems, they can be done at a later time, perhaps with a different method. /B differs from /L, since the file generated with /B will not include extraneous comments not allowed in a 'Conversion Job' file. Use the *.SII file type extension so it can be loaded as a job.

/1{Pages To Convert}

PDF pages to convert. For example if you have a multi page PDF and you want to convert pages 2-5 use /1 2-5 . ALWAYS put a space after the 1 in /1. To do page nine for example use /1 9

/3{TRUE/FALSE}

[NOT YET IMPLEMENTED] Append to existing when converting to a TIFF. Use /3 TRUE to append or /3 FALSE not to.

/4{JPEG Quality}

JPEG: Quality of the resulting JPG from 0 to 100 (default is 100). 0 is lowest and 100 is highest quality. The higher the quality the larger the resulting output file. Use /4 100 for highest quality.

/5{Resolution}

Resolution specified in DPI. Default is 150.

/6{Width}

Width of the output image in pixels. See bottom of this topic for additional notes on specifying width and height.

/7{Height}

Height of the output image in pixels. See bottom of this topic for additional notes on specifying width and height.

/8{TiffConvertToSingleFile }

If you are converting multiple pages in a PDF file to a TIFF, you can have a single file output or multiple file output. Use:

/8 1 to create a single file or

/8 0 to create multiple output files (default).

Not specifying this switch will result in multiple TIF files being created.

/E

Specify an ERRORLEVEL (return code) upon closing the application. The installation includes a sample BAT file illustrating the usage of /E (look for CPTI_TestCommandLine32.bat or CPTI_TestCommandLine64.bat). The following ERRORLEVELs are possible:

3 = Missing or invalid command line arguments

2 = Error occurred during conversion

1 = Shareware expired

0 = Success

See also /L and /V.