Our company periodically needs to convert a large set of Microsoft Word documents to PDF format for a client. We would like to automate this and do it from a command line so that it can be run from a batch file without user intervention. I am using Acrobat 8 Professional. I located the program ConvertWord.exe under the Designer 8.0 folder which looked promising, but it gets a missing fonts error and when I direct it to ignore the error, the PDF file created is corrupt (according to Acrobat). Does anyone know how I can accomplish a Word to PDF file conversion from a command prompt?
Download and install our tool Batch & Print Pro from here: http://www.traction-software.co.uk/batchprint/Run on the command line e.g.
CD "C:\Program Files\Traction Software\Batch & Print Pro"
"Batch And Print" -P"Adobe PDF" c:\files\*.doc -p -q
It uses MS Word to print the docs to pdf so you won't have any issues with fonts etc.
Lee
Traction Software
http://www.traction-software.co.uk