Re: Word 2 PDF
Re: Word 2 PDF
- Subject: Re: Word 2 PDF
- From: Mark Butler <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:59:39 -0800
This may not be the applescript way.... but I had some jobs a few
months ago that required in upwards of 500,000 word docs converted to
tif file.. What I eventually did was find a backend for cups that I
could modify to print to file and then use ghostscript to convert
that to Tif. Ghostscript could do the same thing to pdf. Then all you
have to worry about is how to get them to print..
Wouldnt it be nice if Apple did make a simple way to print raw ps
and / or pdf to a folder??
Mark
On Nov 14, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Richard Brosnahan wrote:
Hi all,
I need to convert truckloads of Microsoft Word documents into PDF
documents on an ongoing basis.
I know this has been covered before, but I've not found a solution
that works with what I've tried.
I tried one method that first grabs the selection from Word, and
the tries to process that into a PDF. AppleScript returns an error
-4990. Not very friendly.
A second method I tried was to us the UI scriptablility in Tiger to
control the Print Dialog in Word. I can't seem to address the PDF
button in that dialog.
A third method I tried was to use the Word macro language, and that
actually might be the most promising method. Unfortunately, I don't
know VBA, or whatever that language is. The recordability is
useful, but making the macro work for any document has got me stumped.
Manually converting Word docs to PDF produces a good result, so I
really want to pursue the scripting of this process. It will help
me get another XServe racked up in the company, instead of another
Windows server.
For testing, I'm using Tiger (10.4.3) with Word X (service release
1, couple versions back) on a Ti PowerBook (one of the greatest
computers ever built).
I will gladly supply script samples, if anyone is interested.
I appreciate any help!
TIA
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