Using Shell

azizrasul

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I am trying to merge 2 win2pdf files (pdf1.pdf and pdf2.pdf). I have been given the following command line to create the merged file called pdf3.pdf. Is there a way of using Shell to do this? I tried the following which didn't error but didn't do anything either.

Code:
Shell("c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\win2pdfe.exe append L:\pdf1.pdf L:\pdf2.pdf L:\pdf3.pdf")
 

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Try:
Code:
Shell "c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\win2pdfe.exe append L:\pdf1.pdf L:\pdf2.pdf L:\pdf3.pdf"
Remove the brackets after Shell and the closing one, since you're not returning an output
 
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Thanks for that, I amended appropriately, but still didn't produce pdf3.pdf. Am I missing something?
 
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Apart from searching online for you, no idea I'm afraid.

Merging pdf's by itself isn't a VBA question, suggestion I made was just based on the syntax you'd used and noticing it wasn't being returned to anything - good luck finding solution!
 
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