Print Wizard BANG Commands

!Acrobat is a special “bang” command for creating a PDF file through the Adobe Acrobat printer driver (provided with Acrobat Professional or Acrobat Standard, NOT available with the Acrobat Reader only), generating a PDF from the following data. If you include email information, this command can email it automatically using MAPISEND and the MAPI protocol.

!ACROBAT /x<fax#> /p<MAPI profile> /e<email address> /t<to> /j<subject> /n<note> /a<attachment> /f<filename> /preview

(included for backward compatibility with prior releases – you can do this with Print Wizard's !PDF BANG command).

!Email will send whatever data follows it as an attachment to an email using the default email settings in Print Wizard.

!EMAIL /email=<emailaddress> /J<subject> /N<notes> /T<to name> ...

!Fax will fax whatever data follows to a specified fax number using the default fax settings in Print Wizard.

!FAX /x<fax #> /t<to> /j<subject> /n<note> /a<attachment> /c<cover pg file>

!Fax32 will fax the data that follows to a specified fax number using the Windows Fax driver.

!FAX32 /x<fax #> /t<to> /j<subject> /n<note> /a<attachment> /c<cover pg file>

!File will write the data that follows out to a work file named in the options.

!FILE /f<output filename>

!MapiSend saves all the following data off to a file and attempts to email or fax it via the MapiSend program. Any included switches are passed on to the stand-alone MapiSend program. See the manual for more documentation on the MAPISEND utility.

!MAPISEND (passes any mapisend switch)

!Params is a new command that allows you to preset certain global variables. This allows you to preset any of the BANG parameters found below. Note that these will then affect all remaining jobs, not just the next subjob. On the other hand, options included on the same line with a BANG command, only affect that subjob.

!PARAMS /n<notes> ... (see examples below)

!PDF utilizes the Print Wizard engine to generate a PDF of the following information. If a “/email” option is included, the PDF file is then emailed to the specified email address through the default email settings.

!PDF /f<filename> /overlay=<overlay name>

!Preview is the same as !Print except that the file will always be shown in the Print Preview dialog before printing.

!PREVIEW /p<printer> /f<print to filename>

!Print prints the data that follows to the default printer or to the specified printer.

!PRINT /p<printer> /f<print to filename>

!Reset resets the options set by the prior !Set command (see the description below).

!RESET

!Run allows you to include your own string to do whatever you want with the data. The data that follows is written to a file and that file name is then passed to the script or application of choice as a command-line parameter. You can also specify specific default actions to take, such as "start", "print" and "printto". If a file association exists for a file extension, the <program> parameter can be a file name rather than an application name.

!RUN <program> (pass any switches you wish to include) %1
!RUN start %1
!RUN print %1
!RUN printto <printername> %1

Similar to !Run, !Runwait allows you to include your own string to do whatever you want with the data. The data that follows is written to a file and that file name is then passed to the script or application of choice as a command-line parameter. The difference is that Print Wizard will pause processing the rest of the file until a return code is returned from the application specified - make sure you know what you are doing and the consequences if the application never returns control to Print Wizard.

!RUN <program> (pass any switches you wish to include) %1
!RUN start %1
!RUN print %1
!RUN printto <printername> %1

!Set sets a specific key entry in the Print Wizard profile or default file that is in use. Note that this sets these globally. Unlike !Params which acts on BANG parameters only, !Set allows you to change specific global defaults by key and value. Each key/value combination is included as a line of data following the !SET command.

!SET
key=value
key=value
...

You can specify optional attachments to be included f faxing, emailing or printing.

/amyfile.pdf
/a"c:\temp\mypdf.pdf"
/ac:\temp\text.pdf,c:\temp\test2.pdf,c:\temp\test3.pdf
/ahttp://www.aaaa.com/pub/mypdf.pdf

Specify a number of copies to print the subjob with.

/copies=3

Specify the printer collate option.

/collate=on

Set a fax coverpage file name.

/cC:\TEMP\Coverpg.cov

Specify a short delay, in seconds, before the processing of this subjob. This is used to slow down the process if you are waiting on a prior subjob to finish.

/delay=10

Specify blind carbon copy email addresses.

/emailbcc=abc@somewhere.com
/emailbcc=abc@somewhere.com,xyz@somwhere.com

Specify carbon copy email addresses.

/emailbcc=abc@somewhere.com
/emailbcc=abc@somewhere.com,xyz@somwhere.com

Specify an "email from address" for outbound emails. This works with some email methods and not with others. Refer to the manual for more information.

/emailfromaddress=pwsubjob@somewhere.com

Specify a name for who the outbound email comes from. This works with some email methods and not with others.

/emailfrom="my PW run"

Allow the body of an email to be HTML.

/emailhtml
/emailhtml=on
/emailhtml=off

The email address to send to.

/email=abc@somewhere.com
/email=abc@somewhere.com,xyz@somewhere.com
/eabc@somewhere.com

Set a fax coverpage file name.

/cC:\TEMP\Coverpg.cov

Specify the fax from number.

/faxfromnum=5551212

Specify the fax from name.

/faxfrom="Jane Doe"

Specify the file to print to. This can be a superfile name (refer to the Print Wizard documentation), a PDF name to generate or just the file name to print to.

/ftif://mytiffile.tif
/f"C:\my files\mypdf.pdf"
/fmyprintfile

Use this to specify multiple lines of message body for emails. All data following the /i<line feed> will be included as the body of an email, rather than as an attachment.

/i
my message body line 1
my message body line 2
my message body line 3

Specify an email or fax subject line.

/j"My subject line"

Specify the notes for the message body of a fax coverpage or for an email. This can reference a file name or it can be the actual text to include in the body.

/nC:\temp\myemailbody.txt
/n"my notes line 1|line 2|line 3"

A vertical bar is used to represent a carriage return within a line.Note that you may be limited by the length of a command line when doing this. In this case you can either reference a file name, use the /i option above, use the line continuation character described below or preset the variable for notes with a !PARAMS or !SET.

Specify an overlay file name to use for PDFs or printing of the subjob.

/overlay=c:\temp\testoverlay.pcl

Turn on print preview.

/preview

After generating a PDF, show the PDF inside Acrobat Reader.

/postview

Specify a different printer for this subjob. This can be a wildcard selection.

/p"HP PSC 2100 PCL"
/p"HP*"

If the BANG command is !Acrobat or !Mapisend, the /P<> will represent the Outlook/MAPI profile to use rather than the printer name.

/pOutlook

The TO name for an outbound email or fax.

/t"email name"

Specify the fax to number.

/x5035551212