Mac batch convert word doc to pdf
Mar 16, '07 07:30:04AM ⢠Contributed by: ctopfel
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Authored by: bobsc on Mar 16, '07 08:04:11AM
If you have Acrobat, it installs a PDF Printer.
Authored by: nukular on Mar 16, '07 09:43:20AM
I would guess this is going to be useless with the new version of Office for Mac as it is no longer going to support creation of VBA macros on OSX.
Authored by: adrianm on Mar 16, '07 09:50:31AM
You'll have to script it with AppleScript instead. In improvement IMO.
Good hint about the cups pdf installer. Very useful that.
Authored by: Arlo on Mar 16, '07 10:17:36AM
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Authored by: ctopfel on Mar 16, '07 10:59:05AM
The program you suggest doesn't seem to work under 10.4.8 (cannot open/select Word documents with it) and is not Universal. The comments say that is is very slow.
Authored by: Arlo on Mar 16, '07 11:36:09AM
I'm on 104.9, and can't speak for Intel, but it works fine for me. Documents convert fast and correctly, at least the ones I have thrown at it. Maybe it chokes on complex .doc files. Does Universal matter anyway? It should work in emulation, no?
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Authored by: Peter Kappesser on Mar 16, '07 01:35:04PM
Great hint in itself about the existence of the CUPS-PDF module, for all of us who don't have Acrobat! When I'm away from home with my laptop, I'm always "printing" web receipts, etc. and saving as PDF, to print when I get home if I need paper copies. This is much neater -- no more having to remember to click the "Save as PDF" button or having to cancel and reprint when I forget. (I know the job will spool to disk and print when I get home, but I save to PDF far more often than I print to paper.)
Authored by: TheTominator on Mar 18, '07 10:01:24AM
After you have installed the Virtual Printer using CUPS-PDF, there is a simpler and more powerful way to batch convert any set of documents to PDF files.
Authored by: TheTominator on Mar 18, '07 10:04:41AM
I forgot to mention that you do not need to make the Virtual Printer your default printer when you use the Desktop Printer icon method.
Authored by: ctopfel on Mar 18, '07 03:12:46PM
Thanks very much for the tip.
This is much cleaner than the macro method.
Authored by: ctopfel on Mar 18, '07 03:19:44PM
A question: is it possible to disable the printer dialog with this mehtod?The macro method has the advantage that it doesn't require clicking okay at each dialog.
Authored by: TheTominator on Mar 18, '07 06:09:43PM
I don't think there is any general way to disable a dialog that may come up. Some programs bring up a dialog and some don't. Microsoft Word is one of those programs that brings up a Print dialog. Apple's TextEdit.app doesn't.
Authored by: tullius on Oct 17, '08 07:10:56PM
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