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Automate conversion to PDF
Can you recommend a product that will monitor a folder and automatically convert .xlsx and .docx files to PDF?
I found a product called e-PDF Document Converter 2.1 but it doesnt really work and gets stuck in a loop converting the same docs over and over (plus doesnt support office 2010 formats)
Or if its not possible to monitor a folder, then a product that can be controlled command line and pointed at a folder. Using windows task scheduler to control it.
I read another thread on EE with a similar request and someone suggested Adobe Elements but it doesn't exist anymore.
Thanks
I found a product called e-PDF Document Converter 2.1 but it doesnt really work and gets stuck in a loop converting the same docs over and over (plus doesnt support office 2010 formats)
Or if its not possible to monitor a folder, then a product that can be controlled command line and pointed at a folder. Using windows task scheduler to control it.
I read another thread on EE with a similar request and someone suggested Adobe Elements but it doesn't exist anymore.
Thanks
Adobe AcrobatPowershellWindows Batch
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Rainer Jeschor
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are there just docx and xlsx files?
Do you have Office installed where you want to run this tool?
Office 2010 has a built-in functionality to export to PDF.
In the following question I used Excel COM to export a worksheet to PDF - the same (adjusted) functionality could be used to export the whole workbook - and I think there would be similar properties/functions for word documents as well.
And you can register a filesystemwatcher (from the .NET framework) with Powershell:
http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Powershell-FileSystemWatche-dfd7084b
So if you want I might be able to create such a Powershell script...
HTH
Rainer