Batch print files in alphabetical order

Question

I have a folder with hundreds of small PDF files to print.
How can I make a batch job to print them out in alphabetical order?

Answer 1

Details here about silent print command in Adobe reader:

http://support.adobe.com/devsup/devsup.nsf/docs/52080.htm

so you can do (batch file):

for %%X in (*.pdf) do AcroRd32.exe /t %%X "\\servername\printername"

or (cmd prompt):

for %X in (*.pdf) do AcroRd32.exe /t %X "\\servername\printername"

Answer 2

dir /b | sort > %temp%\files.tmp
for /f %f in (%temp%\files.tmp) do AcroRd32.exe /t %f "\\servername\printername"
del %temp%\files.tmp

Answer 3

I know this isn't stackoverflow, but the only way I could do this would be in python.

Recepie for printing pdf file:

from win32com import client
import time

ie = client.Dispatch("InternetExplorer.Application")

def printPDFDocument(filename):

    ie.Navigate(filename)

    if ie.Busy:
        time.sleep(1)

    ie.Document.printAll()
    time.sleep(2)

ie.Quit()

Recepie for list all files from a dir:

   import os
   path="C:\\somedirectory"  # insert the path to the directory of interest here
   dirList=os.listdir(path)

Recepie for sorting alfabetically the list of files:

a.sort()  # a is the list

Well just by joining the 3 recepies, you can have your problem solved.