Read input files in natural sort order?

[cday]

Pierre (or anyone else...) is there a way to read input files in natural sort order rather than the 'Windows' sort order?

When a multi-page file is created from files 1.tif 2.tif 3.tif ... 10.tif 11.tif ..., the pages are in the order 1, 10, 11...

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nconvert -out pdf -multi -o name.pdf *.tif

[When renumbering the files to 001.tif 002.tif 003.tif ... isn't an option.]

[xnview]

i don't know

[Mixer]

Pierre (or anyone else...) is there a way to read input files in natural sort order rather than the 'Windows' sort order?

If you had to sort strings "aaa", "aab", "aaab", "aac", "aaac", "aaad", "aad", "aaaa" in natural order, what order would it be?

[cday]

Pierre (or anyone else...) is there a way to read input files in natural sort order rather than the 'Windows' sort order?

If you had to sort strings "aaa", "aab", "aaab", "aac", "aaac", "aaad", "aad", "aaaa" in natural order, what order would it be?

I'd have to think about that!

But the immediate problem only relates to reading numeric input files in natural numerical order, whereas NConvert (and cmd.exe generally seemingly...) reads them in the 'Windows' sort order: the result is that some pages in the multi-page PDF created are in the wrong order...

Renumbering the input files is the obvious solution, but RobertoG in his thread says he can't do that...

[Mixer]

With Explorer (just checked it in 10) you already have numeric sorting which you can revert to old-school http://superuser.com/questions/536438/w ... sort-order. With Nconvert I have no idea what it does and how it works.

[cday]

With Explorer (just checked it in 10) you already have numeric sorting which you can revert to old-school http://superuser.com/questions/536438/w ... sort-order. With Nconvert I have no idea what it does and how it works.

I suspect from a quick Google earlier that NConvert run using cmd.exe users cmd.exe sort order, which seems to be the 'Windows' 1, 10, 11 order.

[xnview]

With Explorer (just checked it in 10) you already have numeric sorting which you can revert to old-school http://superuser.com/questions/536438/w ... sort-order. With Nconvert I have no idea what it does and how it works.

I suspect from a quick Google earlier that NConvert run using cmd.exe users cmd.exe sort order, which seems to be the 'Windows' 1, 10, 11 order.

it's the arguments order from cmd

[cday]

it's the arguments order from cmd

And PowerShell seems to be the same, unless there's a switch for that?