Wrod, VBA, and PDFs

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Has any got any experience in using VBA in Word to save Word documents as PDFs?

(I do have the Adobe Acrobat programs and utilities installed.)

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james

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Is there a reason you don’t want to use PDFMaker which is the VBA macro that Adobe Acrobat installs when you install Acrobat? It does a whole lot more than just print the file.

I find it much simpler to include in the VBA the code which calls that macro.

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I would like to, but it the Adobe Acrobat macro that I did try requires user and I would like to run without user intervention.

Anyone got any pointers on how to do this or could point me in the right direction?

James

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I would use some code to work out what file name and where I want to save it then call the Acrobat macro and then Send Keys to do the user intervention parts.

Failing that I would just try printing the file to the Acrobat Writer or Distiller printer drivers. This method doesn’t bring across any hyperlinks though.

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If you dont want any user interaction the following will work:
Assuming that application you have is Adobe Acrobat Distiller

Obtain storage location & file names that you want to convert.
Open files & then print to file (this will convert file to post script file) & save in location the ‘IN’ folder required by distiller.
Then distiller will convert all files in the in folder to PDF & store in the out folder.

Does this help?
Diana

I would like to, but it the Adobe Acrobat macro that I did try requires user and I would like to run without user intervention.

When you say

I would like to, but it the Adobe Acrobat macro that I did try requires user and I would like to run without user intervention.

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Thanks Diana and Andrew.

I’ll try both methods and see which works best.

James

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