Auto convert from word (.doc) to .pdf ?
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From: JF Mezei on 17 Jan 2010 08:50 Is there a way to automatically convert a bunch of .doc documents to .pdf ? I have an old copy of Word, so I can manually open them and manually print them to PDF. But this is tedious and time consuming. Was wondering if there was some command line way to do this "in batch" ?
From: Warren Oates on 17 Jan 2010 09:55 In article <00cee93d$0$13089$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Is there a way to automatically convert a bunch of .doc documents to .pdf ? > > I have an old copy of Word, so I can manually open them and manually > print them to PDF. But this is tedious and time consuming. Was wondering > if there was some command line way to do this "in batch" ? Google for doc2pdf A lot of the stuff is for Windows, but. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Mike Rosenberg on 17 Jan 2010 11:24 Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In article <00cee93d$0$13089$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > > > Is there a way to automatically convert a bunch of .doc documents to .pdf ? > > > > I have an old copy of Word, so I can manually open them and manually > > print them to PDF. But this is tedious and time consuming. Was wondering > > if there was some command line way to do this "in batch" ? > > Google for doc2pdf > > A lot of the stuff is for Windows, but. I haven't tried it myself, but I just found a $39.95 shareware program: http://www.zevrix.com/batchoutputoffice.php -- My latest dance performance <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9pudbFisE> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi>
From: Tom Harrington on 17 Jan 2010 19:29 In article <00cee93d$0$13089$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > Is there a way to automatically convert a bunch of .doc documents to .pdf ? > > I have an old copy of Word, so I can manually open them and manually > print them to PDF. But this is tedious and time consuming. Was wondering > if there was some command line way to do this "in batch" ? I don't know if your copy of Word is Applescript-able but that's the first thing I'd check. If it's not, or not easily scriptable, try looking at TextEdit, which is. If your Word documents aren't too complex it'll probably do just fine with them. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: JF Mezei on 17 Jan 2010 21:33
Tom Harrington wrote: > I don't know if your copy of Word is Applescript-able but that's the > first thing I'd check. If it's not, or not easily scriptable, try > looking at TextEdit, which is. If your Word documents aren't too > complex it'll probably do just fine with them. The telco who produces those .docs use a type of paragraph numbering that is not supported by textedit (or at least under tiger, I guess I should check again). Having paragraph numbers in important when quoting their stuff. |