Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

[Graham Wickens]

It would be nice if it can be done, but how?

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

As far as I know, the best you could do is extract the text from Word and send it to a memo field and use the Report.saveas() w. the PDF option. You could loop thru the existing files to get all 300.

[Tony Rutherford]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

Graham,

If you have Word 2007, you could download the MS Office "Save as PDF" add-in.

If you have an earlier version of Word, you could download the free PDFCreator software (I don't think it works with Vista).

You could then write some VBA code in Word (or any other MS Office program) to open each document and save it as a pdf.

If you don't know how to use VBA, I could modify some VBA code I wrote for Excel to do a similar job.

Tony

[Tony Rutherford]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

I forgot to mention that there is some useful information about the "Save as PDF" add-in and PDFCreator at www.excelguru.ca

Tony

[Tony Rutherford]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

Graham,

It is also possible to execute VBA code in an MS Office document from within Alpha - see "Translating OLE Syntax examples" in Alpha 5 help.



Tony

[Graham Wickens]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

Thanks guys,

I'll give it a try tomorrow, exhausted from having spent the afternoon with my grandson. :)
I use Word 2003 and PDF Creator so will look at those first. Never written VBA in my life (except by default when writing macros in Word.)
.ps

I am running on XP-Pro... Vista !!! yuk!

not the same PDFCreator, the one I use is an open source windows printer

[Allen Klimeck]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

Open Office can do this with the click of one button.

[russ Boehle]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

In addition to Open Office doing this I believe that PDF Creator (from sourceforge, open source) will concatenate PDF's. I know that Bullzip pdf printer (a free program) will do this as well.

[Ed Barley]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

Graham,

One more

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

Cute PDF has been around for awhile also.

Ed

[Graham Wickens]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

I've had a look at all the options, using OpenOffice I get it done in 5 clicks of the mouse to convert each file. Using OLE within A5V8 looks an interesting way to go, can anyone recommend a decent book on the subject, one written in fairly simply terms?

Thanks

[Doug Page]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

I have not tested the solution from the link below but looks like it is what you are looking for. It creates a macro in Open Office so that you can call it from a batch file. My thought would be to ignore the batch file all together and make the call directly with Alpha.

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=3772

[Graham Wickens]

Re: Is it possible to use A5V8 to convert 300+ word document files into PDF format

I found the command OLE.CREATE() in the help file with an example that opens a Word template and saves the file to a document (.doc). Presumably this could be changed to do what I want, but using Open Office.