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"title" : "How do I Convert a Folder full of text files to Adobe PDF Format? "
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How do I Convert a Folder full of text files to Adobe PDF Format?
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Even though it is easy to convert [one file at a time](ConvertDocToFilePDF.md), Sometimes you need to convert an entire directory of text Files ([or rtf files](ConvertDirRTFToFile.md)) to PDFs. You can do this easily on the command line using [Docto](https://github.com/tobya/docto).
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The command line below shows how you can convert all the text files in a folder to a Adobe PDF Format file - PDF. If you provide a directory and an extension, docto knows to convert all the documents matching that extension in that directory.
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Command Line
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````
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docto -WD -f 'c:\path\todocuments' -fx .txt -o 'c:\path\toOutputfiles' -t wdFormatPDF
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````
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or easier to read
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````
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docto -WD
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-f 'c:\path\todocuments'
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-fx '.txt'
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-o 'c:\path\toOutputfiles'
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-t wdFormatPDF
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````
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Command Line Explained
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- `-WD` : This is a conversion using Microsoft Word.
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- `-f` : The File or directory to be converted
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- `-fx` : File with this extension should be matched.
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- `-o` : The Output File or Directory where you would like the converted file to be written to.
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- `-T` : The file format type that is being converted to
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When providing an extension to search for do not include the initial `*`, so `*.txt` should be `.txt`
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Some other interesting commands
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You might find some of the following commands also interesting.
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- [Convert a Word Document to a PDF file](ConvertDocToFilePDF.md);
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