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Automate pdf creation?

autopilot
Registered: Jul 3 2009
Posts: 3

I have a folder which contains 400 excel workbooks and would like to automate the process of converting each to a pdf document. How can I do this?
 
Thanks in advance for all replies.
 
jim

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.0, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
If you had Acrobat Professional a Batch Process would do the trick. There are other ways but they all involve either writing code or purchasing a tool. Standard by itself just doesn't have the capability. For example a custom VB program can control Acrobat, so it could be written to direct Acrobat to open and convert every file in the folder.

The original tool for converting to PDF is Distiller, and it could be setup to convert a folder of PDFs. But it's been a while and I'm not sure of the Distiller's status in Acro9 std. But it's worth investigating.

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