I have a set of (~1000) MS Word documents. I would like to
programatically open one by one, convert it to PDF format
and save the file without any user action.
Is it possible to do that in VB? Can anyone point me to the
right direction.
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I have a set of (~1000) MS Word documents. I would like to
programatically open one by one, convert it to PDF format
and save the file without any user action.
Is it possible to do that in VB? Can anyone point me to the
right direction.
You need to install Adobe Acrobat 4.0/5.0 full version on that machine then "Acrobat PDFWriter" and "Acrobat Distiller" will appear in the Printers folder in settings. Then I believe you need to configure Adobe Acrobat PDFWriter or Distiller in the registry. Also, you may need to set PDFWriter as your default printer.
After that, you can use Shell or ShellAndWait to open the word doc and use the print command programmatically to conver the doc to PDF.
Anyway, here's their site. It's a good site and has a lot of helpful tips.
http://www.adobe.com/search/main.html
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