PCL stands for Printer Command Language Document and the pcl file is a page layout file, which is a digital printed document created in the Printer Command Language (PCL) page description language describing the layout of text and graphics for the document. PCL files can be created from the Windows print dialog by redirecting the print output to a file using a compatible PCL driver, which could be printed to any HP LaserJet printer by opening the Windows command prompt and typing print file.pcl.
DOCX is a format of MS Office Word 2007 and 2010, which is a format of a text file. DOCX files can be opened by Word 2007 or later for Windows, or with Word 2008 or later for Mac OS X. They may also be opened with earlier versions of Word for Mac and Windows via Open XML document support.
However, how to convert docx to pcl? DOC to Any Converter Command Line could help you convert docx files to pcl files without any error! Also this dreaming converting tool could help you convert doc files to pcl files from each page of docx files to single pcl files easily. Here is the method to convert docx file to pcl file with DOC to Any Converter Command Line below, which you may refer to:
Anyway, no matter which way you will choose to convert docx files to pcl files, you need to run the operating environment of DOC to Any Converter Command Line and start DOC to Any Converter Command Line. Thus, to open the running environment, you could follow one of the steps below:
- click “start” button>select “Run”>input “cmd”>click “ok” button, then the command prompt window could be opened
- click the hotkey of “Windows+R” on the keyboard>input “cmd.exe”>click “ok” button, then the dialog box could be popup on the screen of pc
and here is the current directory in the command prompt below:
C:\Documents and Settings\admin>
And in the current directory, you could start DOC to Any Converter Command Line directly, likely, there are 2 ways for you to select to start DOC to Any Converter Command Line:
- input the path of ‘doc2any.exe’ directly in the command prompt window
- drag and drop the program of ‘doc2any.exe’ into the command prompt window directly
After the start of DOC to Any Converter Command Line, if you would like to edit the properties of pcl files, the parameters could be inputted behind the path of “doc2any.exe”, and here “<options>” is a represent of any parameters you want to input to set the properties of the targeting files:
C:\Documents and Settings\admin>D:\doc2any_cmd\doc2any.exe<space><options><space>
Then add the source file and prepare the targeting path, which could determine whether the conversion is the single conversion or the batch conversion. Thus, to drag and drop the source file into the command prompt window could be the easiest way to add the source files, and to add the single source file, you could drag and drop the single source file into the command prompt window, and if you want to add dozens of the source files for the batch conversion, the wild card character “*” could be used to replace all of the file names in the conversion, after all of the source files could be collected into the uniform folder or on the same disc. Then, input the targeting path directly, which is also compatible with the wildcard character “*” for the batch conversion, at last, click “enter” to convert docx to pcl based on the single conversion or the batch conversion. Here are the related examples about the single conversion and the batch conversion, which you could refer to below:
the single conversion:
C:\Documents and Settings\admin>D:\doc2any_cmd\doc2any.exe<space><options><space> D:\d\fall.docx<space>E:\out\fall.pcl<enter>
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<options> must be inputted between the path of “doc2any.exe” and the path of the source file.
the batch conversion:
C:\Documents and Settings\admin>D:\doc2any_cmd\doc2any.exe<space><options><space> D:\d\*.docx<space>E:\out\*.pcl<enter>
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note: the example of the batch conversion could help users convert all of docx files in the folder of “d” to pcl files added into the folder of “out”.
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Then how to convert docx files to pcl files with one page to one page singly or in batches? The key point is to input the percent character “%” behind the targeting file name, here are the examples below, which are the single conversion and the batch conversion separately:
C:\Documents and Settings\admin>D:\doc2any_cmd\doc2any.exe<space><options><space> D:\d\fall.docx<space>E:\out\fall%.pcl<enter>
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C:\Documents and Settings\admin>D:\doc2any_cmd\doc2any.exe<space><options><space> D:\d\*docx<space>E:\out\*%.pcl<enter>
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