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On Jul 8, 2010, at 12:05 PM, Viv Crawford wrote:
> I routinely create PDFs from Word docs. These are usually fairly throwaway docs so I do it by printing to the Adobe PDF printer rather than by any of the cleverer ways.
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> Can I do this at the command line? I've tried using the Print *.* and it tells me it's printing the first doc in the directory, but then does nothing else. Of course, for a PDF I should also have to tell it where to save the PDF to and what to call it.
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> Happy to admit to being a complete command line amateur, (though I've recently discovered the joy of using it to move and rename files...)
Word won't do much directly from the command line; the usual way to tell it what to do is via a Visual Basic script. The last time I had to do this, I used this site <http://www.suodenjoki.dk/us/productions/articles/word2pdf.htm> as a starting point. The site's owner has done most of the work for you.
That site also has the advantage of coming up first on my Google search. :-) Although I did already have it bookmarked from a similar need a number of years ago.
Hope this helps,
Mike
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