Using Wildcards for Specifying Input Files

The * and ? wildcard characters can be used within the input file text box to specify exactly what files to process. Wildcard characters are used in searching through file directories for similar file names. For example if all the TIF files on a project start with the characters "B9" you could easily specify all the files using "B9*.TIF".

NOTE: If you are appending to a single PDF, do not use a wildcard in the output file.

NOTE: * and ? can be combined together to create powerful filters. See example 4 below.

Example 1:

To specify all PNG files whose first 4 characters begin with the digits "2015":

  Input file = D:\InputFolder\2015*.PNG

  Output file = D:\OutputFolder\*.PDF

In this example files such as 2015Apples.PNG and 2015Oranges.PNG would be processed. However any file not beginning with 2015 would be not be processed.

Example 2:

To specify all BMP files that begin with the word "sugar" and end with the word "spice" specify as follows:

  Input file = D:\InputFolder\sugar*spice.BMP

  Output file = D:\OutputFolder\*.PDF

Example 3:

To specify all TIF files that begin with "sugar" and end with "spice" and have exactly 3 characters between "sugar" and "spice":

  Input file = D:\InputFolder\sugar???spice.TIF

  Output file = D:\OutputFolder\*.PDF

In this example files such as sugarZYXspice.TIF and sugar789spice.TIF would be processed.

Example 4:

To specify all JPG files that begin with "sugar" followed by 3 characters followed with "spice" and then potentially 0 or more characters:

  Input file = D:\InputFolder\sugar???spice*.JPG

  Output file = D:\OutputFolder\*.PDF

So in this example files like sugar123spice.jpg, sugar123spiceAndEverythingNice.jpg would  be processed.